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What Is Life?: Five Great Ideas in Biology

by Paul Nurse

What Is Life?: Five Great Ideas in Biology

by Paul Nurse
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Item #: UT7862
Format: Hardcover, 143 pages; 2021
The dazzlingly complex microscopic activity that is the basis of life is more flabbergasting than the most outlandish science fiction! Nobel Prize-winning geneticist and cell biologist Paul Nurse serves as a brilliant, succinct, and friendly guide through five biological concepts: the cell, the gene, evolution by natural selection, life as chemistry, and lif... More
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The dazzlingly complex microscopic activity that is the basis of life is more flabbergasting than the most outlandish science fiction! Nobel Prize-winning geneticist and cell biologist Paul Nurse serves as a brilliant, succinct, and friendly guide through five biological concepts: the cell, the gene, evolution by natural selection, life as chemistry, and life as information. After a short but awe-inspiring tour of life as we know it, Nurse shares how a more complete understanding of it all can change the world for the better. Prepare to be gobsmacked by science!


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