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Nick Lane
The Vital Question
Synopsis
A biochemist and evolutionary biologist argues that the fundamental question of how life became complex — from single cells to multicellular organisms — was solved by a single, elegant mechanism: the harnessing of energy across cell membranes. Drawing on decades of research into metabolism, genetics, and early Earth's chemistry, Nick Lane traces this idea back billions of years, showing how the evolution of membrane potential set the stage for everything that followed.
Genres
Royal Society of Biology General Book Prize (2015)
