302 | Chris Kempes on the Biophysics of Evolution

1371.724 - 1396.322 Sean Carroll

It makes the Star Trek budget help under control, right? All you need is to slap some prostheses on a human being and you get an alien. Yeah. You know, physicists, of course, like to look at toy models and spherical cows and so forth to put their theories to the test. So let's think about bacteria. They seem to be simple unicellular organisms that we can really do some math on, perhaps.