/sci/ - Science & Math

Susskinds's kind of a dick, doesn't answer questions well, and explains everything really informally, but I still like him.

Favorite lecturer is probably Stephen Boyd (Convex Optimization), he's so good.

OP, read this paper:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1011.4125

It's called "Life is Physics", it's written by two biophysicists and argues that evolution and life is probably an emergent property of a deeper physical phenomenon. It's not a concrete theory, just an interesting review of the current state of the theory of evolution. It's also well sourced with lots of cool anecdotes from fields ranging from condensed matter physics to microbiology.