The Vital Question
Why is life the way it is?
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 lives off a voltage with the strength of a bolt of lightning. In unravelling these scientific enigmas, making sense of life's quirks, Lane's explanatio…
Mehr
CHF 13.55
Preise inkl. MwSt. und Versandkosten (Portofrei ab CHF 40.00)
Versandkostenfrei
Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-84765-880-7
- EAN: 9781847658807
- Produktnummer: 17908944
- Verlag: Profile
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'201 KB
Über den Autor
Nick Lane
31 weitere Werke von Nick Lane:
Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution
Why is life the way it is?
Why is life the way it is?
Ebook (EPUB Format)
CHF 20.65
Bewertungen
Anmelden