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The Vital Question: Why is life the way it is? - Nick Lane
The Vital Question: Why is life the way it is?
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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,... show 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 s
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Format: Kindle Edition
ASIN: B00MVAY7U6
Publisher: Profile Books
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
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Non Fiction, Science, Popular Science
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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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