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Transformer - The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death (Hardcover, Main)
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Transformer - The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death (Hardcover, Main)
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'One of my favourite science writers' Bill Gates For decades,
biology has been dominated by information - the power of genes. Yet
in terms of information there is no difference between a living
cell and one that died a moment ago. What really animates cells and
sets them apart from non-living matter? This question goes back to
the flawed geniuses and heroic origins of modern biology. The
answer could turn our picture of life on Earth upside down. In
Transformer, Nick Lane captures a scientific renaissance that is
hiding in plain sight. At its core is a cycle of reactions that
transforms inorganic molecules into the building blocks of life,
and the reverse - the iconic Krebs cycle that sits at the heart of
metabolism. This conflicted merry-go-round of energy and matter has
long taunted true understanding. Nick Lane is in the vanguard of
scientists now tracing its ramifications across the tree of life.
To grasp the Krebs cycle is to fathom the deep coherence of
biology. It connects the first photosynthetic bacteria with our own
peculiar cells. It links the emergence of consciousness with the
inevitability of death. And it puts the subtle differences between
individuals in the same grand story as the rise of the living world
itself. Life is at root a chemical phenomenon: this is its deep
logic.
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