#113 – Manolis Kellis: Human Genome and Evolutionary Dynamics
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About this episode
<p>Manolis Kellis is a professor at MIT and head of the MIT Computational Biology Group. He is interested in understanding the human genome from a computational, evolutionary, biological, and other cross-disciplinary perspectives.</p>
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<p>Here’s the outline of the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.</p>
<p>OUTLINE:<br />
00:00 – Introduction<br />
03:54 – Human genome<br />
17:47 – Sources of knowledge<br />
29:15 – Free will<br />
33:26 – Simulation<br />
35:17 – Biological and computing<br />
50:10 – Genome-wide evolutionary signatures<br />
56:54 – Evolution of COVID-19<br />
1:02:59 – Are viruses intelligent?<br />
1:12:08 – Humans vs viruses<br />
1:19:39 – Engineered pandemics<br />
1:23:23 – Immune system<br />
1:33:22 – Placebo effect<br />
1:35:39 – Human genome source code<br />
1:44:40 – Mutation<br />
1:51:46 – Deep learning<br />
1:58:08 – Neuralink<br />
2:07:07 – Language<br />
2:15:19 – Meaning of life</p>