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The Vital Question

Paperback • 2016 • 1. edition

The Vital Question

By Nick Lane

1 Ratings • 5.0 of 5

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About the book

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 solution to conundrums that have troubled scientists for decades. The answer, he argues, lies in energy: how all life on Earth l...Show more

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9781781250372

Publisher

Profile Books Ltd

Published year

2016

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1

Original title

The Vital Question

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Paperback

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