
Henry Gee: Paleontologist, Author, and Senior Editor at Nature
Guy Kawasaki's Remarkable People
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The Evolution of a Planet
Living things evolved not long after the earth formed, and they'll be gone in about a billion years. But then you ask, what is life in the context of the evolution of a planet? And people are still debating that. Stecathman has got some amazing stuff out on pretence about trying to define life as being constantly evolving its own phase space. I wrote a science fiction novel called the cigil, and one of the main characters was the pope, who, nobody knew it at the time, was actually neanderthorpe. So do crows have a notion of god? I wonder thet'll benonder. What does an optipus with your brains think
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