![]() In his last book, The Vital Question, he argued that many of these seemingly disparate mysteries could be explained by life’s reliance on electrically charged particles to power itself. One of the most creative of today’s biologists, his work ranges from the evolution of sex and the rise of planetary oxygen to the origin of complex cells and the first life on Earth. Lane’s focus on energy and the essential dynamism of life has been an important thread running through his research. ![]() Quoting the poem Like Most Revelations by Richard Howard, he writes that “it is the movement that creates the form”. So argues biochemist and writer Nick Lane in his new book Transformer. ![]() IF WE want to understand the nature of life, we have to think about the flow of energy and matter. ![]()
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