The Equations of Life: How Physics Shapes Evolution

Cockell, Charles S.

ISBN 10: 1541617592 / ISBN 13: 9781541617599

Editore: Basic Books, 2018

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• Titolo: The Equations of Life: How Physics Shapes Evolution
• Editore: Basic Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2018
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1541617592
• ISBN 13: 9781541617599
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Condizione: Very Good

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Riassunto

A groundbreaking argument for why alien life will evolve to be much like life here on Earth

We are all familiar with the popular idea of strange alien life wildly different from life on earth inhabiting other planets. Maybe it's made of silicon! Maybe it has wheels! Or maybe it doesn't. In The Equations of Life, biologist Charles S. Cockell makes the forceful argument that the laws of physics narrowly constrain how life can evolve, making evolution's outcomes predictable. If we were to find on a distant planet something very much like a lady bug eating something like an aphid, we shouldn't be surprised. The forms of life are guided by a limited set of rules, and as a result, there is a narrow set of solutions to the challenges of existence.
A remarkable scientific contribution breathing new life into Darwin's theory of evolution, The Equations of Life makes a radical argument about what life can -- and can't -- be.

Informazioni sull?autore

Charles S. Cockell is a professor of astrobiology at the University of Edinburgh and the director of the UK Centre for Astrobiology. He lives in Edinburgh, UK.