What is life? five great ideas in biology
"The renowned Nobel Prize-winning scientist's elegant and concise explanation of the fundamental ideas in biology and their uses today. Hailed by Philip Pullman as "a great communicator" who is also "as distinguished a scientist as there could be," Paul Nurse writes with delight at life's richness a...
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New York, NY :
W.W. Norton & Company,
2021.
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a What is life? : |b five great ideas in biology / |c from Nobel Prize winner, Paul Nurse. |
| 246 | 3 | 0 | |a 5 great ideas in biology |
| 250 | |a First American edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a New York, NY : |b W.W. Norton & Company, |c 2021. | |
| 264 | 4 | |c Ã2021 | |
| 300 | |a 145 pages ; |c 22 cm | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction -- The cell: biology's atom -- The gene: the test of time -- Evolution by natural selection: chance and necessity -- Life as chemistry: order from chaos -- Life as information: working as a whole -- Changing the world -- What is life? | |
| 520 | |a "The renowned Nobel Prize-winning scientist's elegant and concise explanation of the fundamental ideas in biology and their uses today. Hailed by Philip Pullman as "a great communicator" who is also "as distinguished a scientist as there could be," Paul Nurse writes with delight at life's richness and a sense of the urgent role of biology in our time. With What Is Life? he delivers a brief but powerful work of popular science in the vein of Carlo Rovelli's Seven Brief Lessons in Physics. Nurse takes readers on a wondrous journey through five fundamental biological ideas-the Cell, the Gene, Evolution by Natural Selection, Life as Chemistry, and Life as Information-introducing the scientists who made the most important advances and taking us into his own lab to give us a sense of the thrill of scientific discovery. In a final chapter, Nurse addresses biology's most pressing ethical issues (including gene-editing, genetic testing, and genetically modified crops), and he concludes with a stirring encomium to biology's role in tackling infectious disease"-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
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