Episode
Mark Ritchie on A New Thermodynamics of Biochemistry, Part 2
COMPLEXITY · Jul 1, 2021 · 46 min
This week we conclude our two-part discussion with ecologist Mark Ritchie of Syracuse University on how he and his SFI collaborators are starting to rethink the intersections of thermodynamics and biology to better fit our scientific models to the patterns we observe in nature. Most of what we know about the enzymatic processes of plant and animal metabolisms comes from test tube experiments…