How Life Works
A User’s Guide to the New Biology
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Philip Ball
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Philip Ball
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Enticingly read by the author, Philip Ball.
'An essential primer on humanity’s ongoing quest to understand the secrets of life . . . Excellent . . . Ball is a terrific writer.' – Adam Rutherford, The Guardian
A cutting-edge new vision of biology that proposes to revise our concept of what life is – from Science Book Prize winner Philip Ball.
Biology is undergoing a quiet but profound transformation. Several aspects of the standard picture of how life works have been exposed as incomplete, misleading, or wrong.
In How Life Works, Philip Ball explores the new biology, revealing life to be a far richer, more ingenious affair than we had guessed. With this knowledge come new possibilities. Today we can redesign and reconfigure living systems, tissues, and organisms. We can reprogram cells, for instance, to carry out new tasks and grow into structures not seen in the natural world. Some researchers believe that ultimately we will be able to regenerate limbs and organs, and perhaps even create new life forms that evolution has never imagined.
Incorporating the latest research and insights, How Life Works is a sweeping journey into this new frontier of the nature of life, a realm that will reshape our understanding of life as we know it.
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- Lisa Remmer
- 21-07-24
Profound!
This book is amazing. I listened to it twice and still probably only understood half of it, but felt excited to keep dipping back in in future to see what more I can learn. It’s a companion for life (pun intended)
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- Marc
- 21-04-24
Great territory mapping of current evolutionary ideas
Shows insufficiency of genetic theories to explain evolution. Shows examples and directions from which better theories could emerge from. However, ignores new ideas from process theory that could have provided a framework for bringing these examples together. Read Juarrero for the most compelling of these ideas.
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- Amazon Customer
- 05-04-24
Eye opening perspective on how living systems really work
Fascinating eye opener on how living systems really work and how the obsession with genes alone have lead us up the grden path
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- Happy Herbivore
- 11-12-23
PDF only downloads front page ?
It’s a very detailed in terms of cellular biology which I like and just shows how much the current hypothesis is just that . A best guess .
The PDF only downloads first page as this is continually referred to it’s frustrating.
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- Meirion
- 15-08-24
A brilliant overview of our cells
This has to be my favourite book this year; very easy to listen to, and so informative. unfortunately at my age my memory is not so great, so will have to start it again to try to recall all that information. loved it.
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