Vital Question (eBook)
569 Seiten
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978-1-84765-880-7 (ISBN)
Nick Lane is not just a writer of words about science, he is also a doer of experiments and a thinker of thoughts. And these days he is hot on the trail of one of the biggest ideas in the universe: the meaning of the word "life". In this, his third book about energy and life, he comes triumphantly close to cracking the secret of why life is the way it is, to a depth that would boggle any ancient philosopher's mind. Solving this mystery leads Lane into a world of ideas that only Lewis Carroll could make sense of. Six impossible things become believable before breakfast when you are reading a Lane book, and there are plenty here... Like the best science writers, Lane never glosses over the detail. Instead he turns it into a series of detective stories. Poirot-like he leads you from the crime to the perpetrator, from the puzzle to the solution. The difference from a detective story is that these tales are real, and fundamental to life itself
One of the deepest, most illuminating books about the history of life to have been published in recent years.
A tour de force of inventive science
Intellectually thrilling
An amazing inquiry into the origins of life. I loved it.
this is a book of vast scope and ambition, brimming with bold and important ideas...The arguments are powerful and persuasive...If you're interested in life, you should read this book...it does tell an incredible, epic story
Nick Lane...is emerging as one of the most imaginative thinkers about the evolution of life on Earth...a scintillating synthesis of a new theory of life
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, even more so.
A potent book, one that not only brings you up to date with biology but also stuns you with the wonder of it all
One of the pleasures of good science writing is that it can awaken, or feed, this kind of curiosity and engagement in the reader, expanding his or her horizons in ways not previously imagined. And, for those willing to make the effort with a sometimes demanding but always clear text, Nick Lane's new book succeeds brilliantly ... I cannot recommend The Vital Question too highly. Lane's vivid descriptions and powerful reasoning will amaze and grip the reader
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 23.4.2015 |
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Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik |
Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie | |
Technik | |
Schlagworte | Alien Life • Bill Gates • biologist • Biology • Cells • Complex cell • Darwin • DNA • Embryos • Energy • Evolution • genes • Genetics • Genomes • Life • life ascending • mitochondria • nick lane • origin of life • Royal Society • royal society prize • Sex • Simple cell • species • The Vital Question |
ISBN-10 | 1-84765-880-6 / 1847658806 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-84765-880-7 / 9781847658807 |
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