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Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution by Nick Lane
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Category: Physical Sciences
Where does DNA come from? What is consciousness? How did the eye evolve? Drawing on a treasure trove of new scientific knowledge, Nick Lane expertly reconstructs evolution's history by describing its ten greatest inventions--from sex and warmth to death--resulting in a stunning account of nature's ingen ...Show more
The Vital Question: Why Is Life the Way It Is? by Nick Lane
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Category: Physical Sciences
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 L ...Show more
The Vital Question: Why is Life the Way it is? by Nick Lane
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Category: Physical Sciences
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 La ...Show more
Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death by Nick Lane
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Category: Physical Sciences
For decades, biology has been dominated by information - the power of genes. Yet there is no difference in information content between a living cell and one that died a moment ago. A better question goes back to the formative years of biology: what processes animate cells and set them apart from lifeles ...Show more
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