The vital question : energy, evolution, and the origins of complex life
(2015)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
576.83/LANE,N
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2015
EDITION
First American edition
DESCRIPTION
360 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780393088816 (hardcover), 0393088812 (hardcover), 9780393088816, 0393088812 :
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Part I: The problem. What is life? ; What is living? -- Part II: The origin of life. Energy at life's origin ; The emergence of cells -- Part III: Complexity. The origins of complex cells ; Sex and the origins of death -- Part IV: Predictions. The power and the glory -- Epilogue: From the deep
A biochemist, building on the pillars of evolutionary theory and drawing on cutting-edge research into the link between energy and genes, argues that the evolution of multicellular life was the result of a single event