The Vital Question
Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life
New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2015.
Format: Book
Edition: First American edition.
Description: 360 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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.
Contents:
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.
ISBN:
9780393088816 (hardcover)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.