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The Vital Question : Why Is Life the Way It Is? by Nick Lane is a science book available to read on EtoBox.
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<p>Why is life the way it is? Bacteria evolved into complex life just once in four billion years of life on earth-and all complex life shares many strange properties, from sex to ageing and death. If life evolved on other planets, would it be the same or completely different?<br><br>In <i>The Vital Question</i>, Nick Lane radically reframes evolutionary history, putting forward a cogent solution to conundrums that have troubled scientists for decades. The answer, he argues, lies in energy: how a
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Nick Lane
- Publisher
- Profile Books Ltd.
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781781250372
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- Fiction, Science, Biology
- Rating
- 4.14 / 5 (126 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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