Manolis Kellis: Origin of Life, Humans, Ideas, Suffering, and Happiness | Lex Fridman Podcast #123

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September 12, 2020

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2h 10m

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Lex Fridman Podcast

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Manolis Kellis is a professor at MIT and head of the MIT Computational Biology Group. Please check out our sponsors to get a discount and to support this podcast:

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🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Lex Fridman Podcast, featuring Lex Fridman and Manolis Kellis, Manolis Kellis: Origin of Life, Humans, Ideas, Suffering, and Happiness | Lex Fridman Podcast #123 explores from Cosmic Origins to Human Meaning: Manolis Kellis on Life Lex Fridman and Manolis Kellis range from the molecular architecture of life to the psychology and philosophy of being human. They discuss the genome and epigenome, evolutionary history, the likelihood and nature of alien life, and grand transitions in biology such as multicellularity, brains, and human civilization.

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