Life on the edge
the coming of age of quantum biology
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Author
Contributions
- Al-Khalili, Jim, 1962- author - Contributor
Publication
2014 - Crown Publishers, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
88,250 words, Guess
Page Count
353 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivelifeonedgecoming0000mcfa
- ISBN-100307986810
- ISBN-139780307986818
- Library of Congress Control Number2015018948
- OCLC Control Number898228299
and 2 more
- OCLC Control Number914329162
- Open LibraryOL26884560M
Classifications
- DDC572
- LCCQP517.Q34 M34 2014
- LCCQP517.Q34 M34 2015
Description
Life is the most extraordinary phenomenon in the known universe; but how does it work? It is remarkable that in this age of cloning and even synthetic biology, nobody has ever made anything living entirely out of dead material. Life remains the only way to make life. Are we missing a vital ingredient in its creation? Like Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene which provided a new perspective on evolution by shifting the focus of natural selection from organisms to genes, Life On The Edge alters our understanding of life from cells or biomolecules to the fundamental particles that drive life's dynamics. From this new perspective, life makes more sense as its missing ingredient is revealed to be quantum mechanics and the strange phenomena that lie at the heart of this most mysterious of sciences.
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