James Tour

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1,512 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 15 Dec

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I've even gone so far as to say I don't understand the chemistry between

behind the evolutionary process.

I mean, you'll talk generalities.

You want to fly over 30,000 feet and look down, okay, you can describe it.

But tell me about the chemistry.

Tell me about the molecular interactions that are going to have to occur, the changes at the molecular level and how that happens.

You would think my colleagues would say, no problem, Jim, let's go out to lunch.

I would think that, actually.

I'll tell you how it happens.

I'll tell you what happens.

But they don't.

They don't.

They don't tell me how it happens.

It's very rare.

Only one colleague in my whole career from Washington University in St.

Louis reached out to me and he tried to explain to me.

We got together.

I flew out there.

I mean, this is how badly I wanted to know.

Talk to me about the chemistry behind this evolutionary process because I'm just not getting it.

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