The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life

Nick Lane  ·  2015

 ·  non-fiction   science   biology

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Lane tackles the deepest unsolved problem in biology: why is complex life so rare in the universe? His answer, rooted in bioenergetics and the origin of the mitochondrion, is radical and persuasive.