Nick Lane
The Vital Question: Why is life the way it is?
- ISBN 13:
- 9781781250372
- author:
- Nick Lane
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Profile Books
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2016
- Pages:
- 352
- Dimensions:
- 12.9 x 2.3 x 19.8 cm
- Genre:
- Science & Nature, Biological Sciences, , Nick
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 5 working days
Description
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. 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 unravelling these scientific enigmas, Lane's explanation provides a solution to life's vital questions: why are we as we are, and why are we here at all?
This book offers groundbreaking science in an accessible form, a tradition that includes works by Charles Darwin, Richard Dawkins, and Jared Diamond. If you're interested in understanding the fundamental nature of life, this is a thought-provoking read.
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