The Vital Question (RARE BOOKS)
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<p>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?</p><p>In <i>The Vital Question</i>, 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?</p><p>This is ground-breaking science in an accessible form, in the tradition of Charles Darwin's <i>The Origin of Species</i>, Richard Dawkins' <i>The Selfish Gene</i>, and Jared Diamond's <i>Guns, Germs and Stee</i>l.</p>
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