The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life
The Earth teems with life: in its oceans, forests, skies and cities. Yet there’s a black hole at the heart of biology. We do not know why complex life is the way it is, or, for that matter, how life first began. In The Vital Question, award-winning author and biochemist Nick Lane radically...
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The Earth teems with life: in its oceans, forests, skies and cities. Yet there’s a black hole at the heart of biology. We do not know why complex life is the way it is, or, for that matter, how life first began. In The Vital Question, award-winning author and biochemist Nick Lane radically reframes evolutionary history, putting forward a solution to conundrums that have pu
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9780393352979 (0393352978)
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Pages no: 368
Edition language: English
TITLE: The Vital Question: Why Is Life the Way It Is? AUTHOR: Nick Lane DATE PUBLISHED: 2016 FORMAT: Paperback ISBN-13: 9781781250372 _____________________________________ BLURB: “There’s a black hole at the heart of biology: we do not know why life is the way it is. Bacteria evol...
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