The vital question : energy, evolution, and the origins of complex life / Nick Lane.
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TextPublisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2016Description: 360 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0393352978; 9780393352979Subject(s): Life -- Origin | Cells -- Evolution | Energy metabolism | Cells -- Evolution | Energy metabolism | Life -- OriginDDC classification: 576.83 LOC classification: QH325 | .L36 2016| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 306-333) and index.
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 origins of complex cells ; Sex and the origins of death -- Part IV: Predictions. The power and the glory -- Epilogue: From the deep.
A biochemist, building on the pillars of evolutionary theory and drawing on cutting-edge research into the link between energy and genes, argues that the evolution of multicellular life was the result of a single event.
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