![]() ![]() It connects the origin of life with the devastation of cancer, the first photosynthetic bacteria with our own mitochondria, sulphurous sludges with the emergence of consciousness, and the trivial differences between ourselves with the large-scale history of our planet. To understand this cycle is to fathom the deep coherence of the living world. At its core is an amazing cycle of reactions that uses energy to transform inorganic molecules into the building blocks of life - and the reverse. He is the codirector of UCL’s Centre for Life’s Origins and Evolution (CLOE) and lives in London, England. In Transformer, Nick Lane turns the standard view upside down, capturing an extraordinary scientific renaissance that is hiding in plain sight. Nick Lane is a professor of evolutionary biology at University College London and an award-winning author of five books. HARVARD SCIENCE BOOK TALKNick Lane, in conversation with Logan McCarty'Transformer : The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death'What brings the Earth to life, and. A better question goes back to the formative years of biology: what processes animate cells and set them apart from lifeless matter? At its core is a cycle of reactions that transforms inorganic molecules into the building blocks of life, and the reversethe iconic Krebs cycle that sits at the heart of metabolism. Yet there is no difference in information content between a living cell and one that died a moment ago. In Transformer, Nick Lane captures a scientific renaissance that is hiding in plain sight. In Transformer, Nick Lane captures a scientific renaissance that is hiding in plain sight. 'One of my favourite science writers' Bill Gatesįor decades, biology has been dominated by information - the power of genes. ![]()
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