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The Vital Question: Why is life the way it is?
Nick Lane
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Description for The Vital Question: Why is life the way it is?
paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: PDZ; PS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 28. Weight in Grams: 308. Paperback, cover has a small tear otherwise in good condition.
Why is life the way it is? Bacteria evolved into complex life just once in four billion years of life on earth-and all complex life shares many strange properties, from sex to ageing and death. If life evolved on other planets, would it be the same or completely different? In The Vital Question, Nick Lane radically reframes evolutionary history, putting forward a cogent solution to conundrums that have troubled scientists for decades. The answer, he argues, lies in energy: how all life on Earth lives off a voltage with the strength of a bolt of lightning. In ... Read more
Why is life the way it is? Bacteria evolved into complex life just once in four billion years of life on earth-and all complex life shares many strange properties, from sex to ageing and death. If life evolved on other planets, would it be the same or completely different? In The Vital Question, Nick Lane radically reframes evolutionary history, putting forward a cogent solution to conundrums that have troubled scientists for decades. The answer, he argues, lies in energy: how all life on Earth lives off a voltage with the strength of a bolt of lightning. In ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Profile Books
Condition
Used, Good
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781250372
SKU
KRF2233624
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About Nick Lane
Nick Lane has published four critically acclaimed books, translated into 20 languages; most recently The Vital Question. He was awarded the 2015 Biochemical Society Award for his outstanding contribution to the molecular life sciences. Life Ascending won the 2010 Royal Society Prize for Science Books. Nick is a biochemist in the Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment ... Read more
Reviews for The Vital Question: Why is life the way it is?
An amazing inquiry into the origins of life. I loved it.
Bill Gates He is an original researcher and thinker and a passionate and stylish populariser. His theories are ingenious, breathtaking in scope, and challenging in every sense ... intellectually what Lane is proposing, if correct, will be as important as the Copernican revolution and perhaps, in some ways, ... Read more
Bill Gates He is an original researcher and thinker and a passionate and stylish populariser. His theories are ingenious, breathtaking in scope, and challenging in every sense ... intellectually what Lane is proposing, if correct, will be as important as the Copernican revolution and perhaps, in some ways, ... Read more