Prologue: The Second Creation
One: Birth of a Cell
Two: Schrodinger
Three: Unlocking the Secrets of Life
Four: The Fiftieth-Anniversary Coronation and Dismissal
Five : ATP and the Meaning of Life
Six: Origins
Seven: The Spandrels of San Marco
Eight: The Twilight Zone
Nine: The Synthetic Cell Turing Test
Ten: What Is Life?
Notes, Bibliography, Acknowledgments, Index
Ed Regis is a full-time science writer, contributing to Scientific American, Harper's Magazine, Wired, Discover, and The New York Times, among other publications. He is the author of several books, including The Biology of Doom.
"Elegant, simple, clear, beautifully written. Regis takes up where
Erwin Schrödinger left off and tackles the ultimate mystery of
biology. This book is a scrumptious gem." -- Richard Preston,
author of The Hot Zone
"Ed Regis is always a careful researcher, always an independent
thinker. In this subversive litte book, he shows that the biggest
of big questions is still worth asking - more urgently now than
ever." -- David Quammen
"A Comprehensive and elegant analysis of the physical basis of
life: an up-to-date successor to Schrödinger's 1944 book." - Marvin
Minsky, Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, M.I.T., and
author of The Emotion Machine
"Clearly written and entirely accessible to those without any
science background...a delightful and informative
introduction."--The Quarterly Review of Biology
Listed in Science Book News No. 160 (7/6/09)
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