Vital Question Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life [Paperback]

An amazing inquiry into the origins of life.[Nick Lane] proves an able guide through treacherous scientific terrain. He writes in lucid, accessible prose, and while the science may get dense, the reader will be rewarded with a strikingly unconventional view of biology.If I were a rich man, I would buy up the print run of this book and give a copy to every science undergraduate ahead of his or her first course in cell biology.He is an original researcher and thinker and a passionate and stylish populariser. His theories are ingenious, breathtaking in scope, and challenging in every sense&intellectually what Lane is proposing, if correct, will be as important as the Copernican revolution.A book of vast scope and ambition, brimming with bold and important ideas&. The arguments are powerful and persuasive&an incredible, epic story.In this, his third book about energy and life, [Lane] comes triumphantly close to cracking the secret of why life is the way it is, to a depth that would boggle any ancient philosophers mind.A scintillating synthesis of a new theory of life.Magnificent&. [One of the deepest, most illuminating books about the history of life to have been published in recent years.