What is life? Understanding biology in five simple steps

What is life? Following Dawkins, Hawking, and Attenborough, the outstanding British scientist, Nobel Prize winner in medicine and physiology Paul Nurse strives to answer one of science's most important questions. Clearly and understandably explaining the basic processes and phenomena without which life would be impossible, he presents fundamental ideas in the book, telling where they come from, why they are so important, and how they resonate with each other. Cell, gene, evolution through natural selection, life as a chemical process and life as a flow of information — these concepts are the alpha and omega of modern biology.