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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 and a sense of the urgent role of biology in our time. With What Is Life? he delivers a brief but powerful work of popular science in the vein of Carlo Rovelli's Seven Brief Lessons in Physics.Nurse takes readers on a wondrous journey through five fundamental biological ideas -- the Cell, the Gene, Evolution by Natural Selection, Life as Chemistry, and Life as Information -- introducing the scientists who made the most important advances and taking us into his own lab to give us a sense of the thrill of scientific discovery.



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