Charles Cockell is professor of Astrobiology at the University of Edinburgh and Director of the UK Centre for Astrobiology. He is a former NASA scientist and Open University professor.
Riveting... Cockell is not only a fine scientist but a fine writer
too.
*Sir Martin Rees – Astronomer Royal and former President of the
Royal Society*
An intriguing and enthralling adventure into the physics of life
that is all around us and inside us. Cockell provides a reminder of
the seeming rarity of all this beauty but also an invitation to
look up to the skies and ask 'where else might something like this
be?'
*Robin Ince – Presenter of BBC Radio 4’s Infinite Monkey Cage*
Magisterial and collegial, this may be the biology book of the
year
*Booklist*
Fascinating . . . Cockell offers surprising insights
*Sean Carroll, author of The Particle at the End of the
Universe*
An invaluable guide... Life is generally described as a matter of
contingency: what we find in nature is the result of countless
historical accidents. In The Equations of Life, Charles Cockell
provides an important counterbalance to that picture.
*Philip Ball, author of Critical Mass*
A lucid, provocative argument that the dazzling variety of
organisms produced by 4 billion years of evolution may seem
unbounded, but all follow universal laws.
*Kirkus*
Enlightening and entertaining... Whether on this third rock from
the Sun or another planet in a far-distant galaxy, creatures should
share forms and behaviours shaped by the forces of natural
selection and the fundamental laws of physics that reign throughout
the universe.
*Lee Billings, author of Five Billion Years of Solitude*
Fascinating. A profound exploration of the deep nexus between
physics and biology.
*Andreas Wagner, professor of evolutionary biology at the
University of Zürich and author of Arrival of the Fittest*
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