How does size shape our understanding of and search for life? #020 with Chris Kempes

 

Generalized Stoichiometry and Biogeochemistry for Astrobiological Applications

Multiple Paths to Multiple Life

Watch Chris Kempes and David Krakauer discuss multiple life in episode 2 of "Andromeda Strain and the Meaning of Life"

Watch Sara Walker's critique of Multiple Life in episode 4 of "Andromeda Strain and the Meaning of Life"

Allometric scaling of production and life-history variation in vascular plants, by West, Enquist, Brown and Charnov.

A related lecture by Geoffrey West

Atlantis Dispatch 009, in which we contemplate cultural origins...

Past related ACS episodes - Heather Graham and Cole Mathis on what Chris calls “Chemical Complexity.”

Their co-authored paper, Identifying molecules as biosignatures with assembly theory and mass spectrometry.