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What Are The Weirdest Types Of Life? - Carl Zimmer | Modern Wisdom Podcast 394
Carl Zimmer is a science writer, journalist and an author who specialises in the topics of evolution, parasites, and heredity.
Life is the thing which illuminates our corner of the universe. It gives colour to an otherwise cold, brutal void. But what is life? How is it defined? Despite seeming obvious at first glance, this question is one of the most contested in science.
Expect to learn what are the most extreme forms of life which can live in the vacuum of space, how life might have begun in rock pools, why aliens might be so different to us that we don't even recognise them, how a slimemould that looks like dog vomit can learn its way through a maze and much more...
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00:00 Intro
00:38 Our Awareness of Life
10:09 What Constitutes Life & Death?
20:45 Animals with Weird Ideas About Life & Death
25:48 Understanding Life for Fungi
34:21 Other Forms of Life in the Universe
40:16 Origins of Life on Earth
44:48 Are Viruses Alive?
50:13 Discovering a Better Definition of Life
57:10 Where to Find Carl
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