<div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>This episode, University of Edinburgh PhD candidate Mia Belle Parkinson chats with Dr Nick Lane, Professor of Evolutionary Biochemistry&nbsp;at the University College London.&nbsp;We talk about Nick's motivation to dethrone the primordial soup theory, what is directed panspermia, and the connection between the origin of life and consciousness.</div></div></div></div></div><div></div></div></div></div></div><div></div></div></div></div>