From Atoms to Trees. An Introduction to Modern Science of Life

What are living bodies made of and what does carbon have to do with it? What is the genetic code, who are viruses, how is the evolutionary tree structured, and why did the Cambrian explosion occur? The proposed book provides relevant answers to these and many other questions.

The "focus" of the narrative is the evolution of life on Earth: the author believes that only from this perspective do the various biological problems acquire a unified meaning.

The book consists of four parts, the topics of which are successively expanded: "Chemistry of Life", "Mechanism of Life", "Tree of Life", and "History of Life".