Life on the Edge
The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology
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Pete Cross
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Johnjoe McFadden
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Jim Al-Khalili
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Life is the most extraordinary phenomenon in the known universe; but how did it come to be? Even in an age of cloning and artificial biology, the remarkable truth remains: Nobody has ever made anything living entirely out of dead material. Life remains the only way to make life. Are we still missing a vital ingredient in its creation? Jim Al-Khalili and Johnjoe Macfadden reveal the hitherto missing ingredient to be quantum mechanics and the strange phenomena that lie at the heart of this most mysterious of sciences. As they brilliantly demonstrate here, life lives on the quantum edge.
©2014 Johnjoe McFadden and Jim Al-Khalili (P)2015 Dreamscape Media, LLCYou may also enjoy...
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- husson nicolas
- 2019-09-26
deep, clear and mind-blowing
narrator is perfect
subject sooooo interesting, difficult but there is plenty of explainations that make concept easier to grasp
and you deep step by step
and I love the details about everything related to those studies (how researchers feels or think, what are there mind etc)
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