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020    9781781250365|qhardback 
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100 1  Lane, Nick,|d1967-|eauthor. 
245 14 The vital question :|bwhy is life the way it is? /|cNick 
       Lane. 
264  1 London :|bProfile Books,|c2015. 
300    360 pages :|billustrations ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0  Introduction : why is life the way it is? -- Part I. The 
       problem. What is life? -- What is living? -- Part II. The 
       origin of life. Energy at life's origin -- The emergence 
       of cells -- Part III. Complexity. The origin of complex 
       cells -- Sex and the origins of death -- Part IV. 
       Predictions. The power and the glory -- Epilogue : from 
       the deep. 
520    Why is life the way it is? Bacteria evolved into complex 
       life just once in four billion years of life on earth - 
       and all complex life shares many strange properties, from 
       sex to ageing and death. If life evolved on other planets,
       would it be the same or completely different? In The Vital
       Question, Nick Lane radically reframes evolutionary 
       history, putting forward a cogent solution to conundrums 
       that have troubled scientists for decades. The answer, he 
       argues, lies in energy: how all life on Earth lives off a 
       voltage with the strength of a bolt of lightning. In 
       unravelling these scientific enigmas, making sense of 
       life's quirks, Lane's explanation provides a solution to 
       life's vital questions: why are we as we are, and why are 
       we here at all? This is ground-breaking science in an 
       accessible form, in the tradition of Charles Darwin's The 
       Origin of Species, Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene, and 
       Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel. 
650  0 Life|xOrigin|vPopular works. 
650  0 Cells|xEvolution. 
650  7 Cells|xEvolution.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00850261 
650  7 Life|xOrigin.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00998169 
650 12 Biogenesis. 
650 17 Biogenese.|2gtt|0(NL-LeOCL)143904051 
650 17 Evolutionaire biologie.|2gtt|0(NL-LeOCL)24442098X 
650 22 Biological Evolution. 
650 22 Cells. 
655  7 Popular works.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01423846 
776 08 |iebook version|z9781847658807 
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