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What Is Life? by Paul Nurse7/5/2023 ![]() To survive the challenges that face us all today - climate change, pandemic, loss of biodiversity and food security - it is vital that we all understand what life is. ![]() Nurse writes with delight at life's richness and with a sense of the urgent role of biology in our time. He introduces the scientists who made the most important advances, and, using his personal experiences in and out of the lab, he shares with us the challenges, the lucky breaks, and the thrilling eureka moments of discovery. If you have limited biology, then have Google close at hand to understand some of the more complex issues aro What a wonderful book, and as close as I have read to an understanding of what life is and where it comes from. ![]() It is a shared journey of discovery step-by-step Nurse illuminates five great ideas that underpin biology - the Cell, the Gene, Evolution by Natural Selection, Life as Chemistry, and Life as Information. If you have studied biology to a decent level, then Paul Nurse does his best to keep things as readable and flowing as possible. We are truly devastated by the passing of our brother Paul, S. In What Is Life?, he takes up the challenge of describing what it means to be alive in a way that every listener can understand. Paul Cattermole (Photo: Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock) The day after Paul died, his pop group posted a tribute to him on Instagram. The renowned biologist Paul Nurse has spent his career revealing how living cells work. The Nobel Prize-winning scientist's elegant explanation of the fundamental ideas in biology and their uses today. ![]()
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