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What Is Life?: Five Great Ideas in Biology

By Paul Nurse
Narrated by: Paul Nurse
Unabridged — 5 hours, 6 minutes
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Narrated by: Paul Nurse
Unabridged — 5 hours, 6 minutes
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Approaching his posed question with an enthusiastic elegance, an accessible rigor with a touch of playfulness, the Nobel prize-winning geneticist ushers us, step by step, to and through this most fundamental question about the nature of life on earth — as well as a nod to what might make “life” on another planet.

The Nobel Prize-winning scientist's elegant explanation of the fundamental ideas in biology and their uses today.



The renowned biologist Paul Nurse has spent his career revealing how living cells work. In What Is Life?, he takes up the challenge of describing what it means to be alive in a way that every listener can understand.



It is a shared journey of discovery; step-by-step Nurse illuminates five great ideas that underpin biology-the Cell, the Gene, Evolution by Natural Selection, Life as...