The vital question : why is life the way it is?
Lane, Nick, 1967-2015
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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? 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.
Main title:
The vital question : why is life the way it is? / Nick Lane.
Author:
Lane, Nick, 1967-, author
Imprint:
London : Profile Books, 2015.London : Profile Books, 2015.
Collation:
360 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781781250365 (hbk)
Dewey class:
576.83
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1722174