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The vital question energy, evolution, and the origins of complex life

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.

Main Author: Lane, Nick, 1967- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2015.
Edition: First American edition.
Subjects:
Stein, Sylvia tribute
Life > Origin.
Cells > Evolution.
Energy metabolism.
Summary: 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.
Physical Description: 360 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780393088816 (hardcover)
0393088812 (hardcover)
Author Notes: Nick Lane is a biochemist in the Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment at University College London, and leads the UCL Origins of Life Program. He was awarded the 2015 Biochemical Society Award for his outstanding contribution to the molecular life sciences. He is the author of Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution, which won the 2010 Royal Society Prize for Science Books, as well as Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life and Oxygen: The Molecule that Made the World.

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