H. James Cleaves is a professor at the Earth-Life
Science Institute in Tokyo and co-author of A Brief
History of Creation: Science and the Search for the Origin of
Life.
A series of live conversations between writer Carl Zimmer and eight leading thinkers on the question of what it means to be alive. What Is Life? was recorded in front of a live audience at Caveat in New York and is supported by a grant from Science Sandbox, a Simons Foundation initiative.