What is life?: five great ideas in biology
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Published:
New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, 2021.
Format:
Book
Edition:
First American edition.
Physical Desc:
145 pages ; 22 cm
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780393541151, 0393541150, 9780393541151

Notes

General Note
"First published in Great Britain in 2020 by David Fickling Books under the title What is life? Understand biology in five steps"--Title page verso.
Description
"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. In a final chapter, Nurse addresses biology's most pressing ethical issues (including gene-editing, genetic testing, and genetically modified crops), and he concludes with a stirring encomium to biology's role in tackling infectious disease"--,Provided by publisher.

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APA Citation (style guide)

Nurse, P. (2021). What is life?: five great ideas in biology. First American edition. W.W. Norton & Company.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)

Nurse, Paul, 1949-. 2021. What Is Life?: Five Great Ideas in Biology. W.W. Norton & Company.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)

Nurse, Paul, 1949-, What Is Life?: Five Great Ideas in Biology. W.W. Norton & Company, 2021.

MLA Citation (style guide)

Nurse, Paul. What Is Life?: Five Great Ideas in Biology. First American edition. W.W. Norton & Company, 2021.

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