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Nurse, Paul, 1949- author.
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Biology -- Philosophy.
Life (Biology)
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What is life? : five...
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What is life? : five great ideas in biology / from Nobel Prize winner, Paul Nurse.
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Nurse, Paul, 1949- author.
New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, 2021.
Subjects
Biology -- Philosophy.
Life (Biology)
ISBN:
9780393541151 (hardcover) :
0393541150 (hardcover) :
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145 pages ; 22 cm
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First American edition.
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"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"--
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