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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Christian De Duve |
| ISBN: | 0195156056 9780195156058 |
| OCLC Number: | 49959465 |
| Description: | xv, 341 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | What is life? chemistry -- What is life? information -- Where does life come from? -- How did life arise? the way to RNA -- How did life arise? from RNA to protein-DNA -- How did life arise? the birth of cells -- The history of life -- The invisible world of bacteria -- The mysterious birth of eukaryotes: the problem -- The mysterious birth of eukaryotes: a possible pathway -- The visible revolution -- The arrow of evolution -- Becoming human -- The riddle of the brain -- Reshaping life -- After us, what? -- Are we alone? -- How about God in all that? |
| Responsibility: | Christian de Duve. |
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<br>"A well-written, engaging scientific tour de force.... de Duve exhibits an extraordinary skill in conveying his deep knowledge of biology.... Both a first-rate scholar and an accomplished popularizer of science...de Duve moves with equal familiarity and eloquence from scientific papers to French poets.... Life Evolving forces the reader to avoid intellectual complacency and to articulate one's own arguments to effectively address his position. These are, in themselves, major reasons to appreciate the book."--Science<p><br>"This book is addressed to the educated lay person interested in the origin of life, its evolution to the present day and its philosophical implications. The reader is in for a treat of unsurpassed lucid and poetic writing. It is the testament of one of the great biologist-philosophers of our time."--Gunter Blobel, Nobel Laureate in Physiology and Medicine<p><br>"An original thinker and graceful writer, Christian de Duve is an E.O. Wilson for the cell. In Life Evolving, De Duve lays bare the molecular machinery of life, finding both explanation of our evolutionary past and signs of what it will mean to be human in the twenty-first century."--Andrew H. Knoll, Fisher Professor of Natural History, Harvard University<p><br> Read more...

