Life is a diverse and ubiquitous phenomenon on Earth,
characterized by fundamental features distinguishing living bodies
from nonliving material. Yet it is also so complex that it has long
defied precise definition. This book from a seasoned biologist
offers new insights into the nature of life by illuminating a
fascinating architecture of dualities inherent in its existence and
propagation. Life is connected with individual living beings, yet
it is also a collective and inherently global phenomenon of the
material world. It embodies a dual existence of cycles of
phenotypic life, and their unseen driver - an uninterrupted march
of genetic information whose collective immortality is guaranteed
by individual mortality. Although evolution propagates and tunes
species of organisms, the beings produced can be regarded merely as
tools for the survival and cloning of genomes written in an
unchanging code. What are the physical versus informational bases
and driving forces of life, and how do they unite as an integrated
system? What does time mean for individuals, life on the global
scale, and the underlying information? This accessible examination
of principles and evidence shows that a network of dualities lies
at the heart of biological puzzles that have engaged the human mind
for millennia.
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