The Demon in the Machine: How Hidden Webs of Information Are Solving the Mystery of Life

by Paul C.W. Davies

Book Overview

Physics World Book of the Year

A Financial Times, Sunday Times, and Telegraph Best Science Book of the Year

What is life? For generations, scientists have struggled to make sense of this fundamental question, for life really does look like magic: even a humble bacterium accomplishes things so dazzling that no human engineer can match it. Huge advances in molecular biology over the past few decades...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022666970X
• ISBN13: 9780226669700
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.1"