![]() ![]() ![]() To survive the challenges that face us all today-climate change, pandemic, loss of biodiversity and food security-it is vital that we all understand what life is. Nurse writes with delight at life's richness and with a sense of the urgent role of biology in our time. But what does it actually mean to be alive, and how do we decide what is living and what is not After a lifetime of studying life, Nobel Prizewinner Sir Paul Nurse, one of the worlds leading scientists, has taken on the challenge of defining it. He introduces the scientists who made the most important advances, and, using his personal experiences in and out of the lab, he shares with us the challenges, the lucky breaks, and the thrilling eureka moments of discovery. Life is all around us, abundant and diverse. It is a shared journey of discovery step-by-step Nurse illuminates five great ideas that underpin biology-the Cell, the Gene, Evolution by Natural Selection, Life as Chemistry, and Life as Information. ![]() In What Is Life?, he takes up the challenge of describing what it means to be alive in a way that every listener can understand. The renowned biologist Paul Nurse has spent his career revealing how living cells work. This book explains, in a way that is both clear and elegant, how the processes of life unfold, and does as much as science can to answer the question posed by the title. The Nobel Prize-winning scientist's elegant explanation of the fundamental ideas in biology and their uses today. 'Paul Nurse is about as distinguished a scientist as there could be. ![]()
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