Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death

by Nick Lane

Book Overview

What brings the Earth to life, and our own lives to an end?

For decades, biology has been dominated by the study of genetic information. Information is important, but it is only part of what makes us alive. Our inheritance also includes our living metabolic network, a flame passed from generation to generation, right back to the origin of life. In Transformer, biochemist Nick Lane reveals a scientific renaissance that is hiding in plain sight...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1324064501
• ISBN13: 9781324064503
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.6" x 8.2"