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The Vital Question

Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life
Dec 01, 2015JLMason rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
This book is a significantly more challenging read than Lane's previous book on the 10 great inventions of evolution. The reader should have at least some high school chemistry (and remember it!) to best appreciate the arguments put forth. Lane delves deep into cell chemistry and composition to explain how complex life (eukaryotes) evolved and to postulate that if it evolved elsewhere in the universe it would need to be similar in structure due to restrictions imposed by chemistry and energy transfer.