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"The renowned Nobel Prize-winning scientist's elegant and concise explanation of the fundamental ideas in biology and their uses today. Hailed by Philip Pullman as "a great communicator" who is also "as distinguished a scientist as there could be," Paul Nurse writes with delight at life's richness a... Full description
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The cell: biology's atom
- The gene: the test of time
- Evolution by natural selection: chance and necessity
- Life as chemistry: order from chaos
- Life as information: working as a whole
- Changing the world
- What is life?