Introduction
1: What is Life? (a: Chemistry)
2: What is Life? (b: Information)
3: Where Does Life Come From?
4: How Did Life Arise? (a: The Way to RNA)
5: How Did Life Arise? (b: From RNA to Protein-DNA)
6: How Did Life Arise? (c: The Birth of Cells)
7: The History of Life
8: The Invisible World of Bacteria
9: The Mysterious Birth of Eukaryotes (a: The Problem)
10: The Mysterious Birth of Eukaryotes (b: A Possible Pathway)
11: The Visible Revolution
12: The Arrow of Evolution
13: Becoming Human
14: The Riddle of the Brain
15: Reshaping Life
16: After Us, What?
17: Are We Alone?
18: How About God in All That?
Christian de Duve won the Nobel Prize in 1974 for his work on the organization of the cell. One of the best-known pioneers of cell biology, he is head of the Christian de Duve Institute of Cellular Pathology. He is the author of Vital Dust: Life as a Cosmic Imperative, Blueprint for a Cell: The Nature and Origins of Life, and A Guided Tour of the Living Cell. He shares his time between New York and Brussels.
"A well-written, engaging scientific tour de force.... de Duve
exhibits an extraordinary skill in conveying his deep knowledge of
biology.... Both a first-rate scholar and an accomplished
popularizer of science...de Duve moves with equal familiarity and
eloquence from scientific papers to French poets.... Life Evolving
forces the reader to avoid intellectual complacency and to
articulate one's own arguments to effectively address his position.
These
are, in themselves, major reasons to appreciate the
book."--Science
"This book is addressed to the educated lay person interested in
the origin of life, its evolution to the present day and its
philosophical implications. The reader is in for a treat of
unsurpassed lucid and poetic writing. It is the testament of one of
the great biologist-philosophers of our time."--Gunter Blobel,
Nobel Laureate in Physiology and Medicine
"An original thinker and graceful writer, Christian de Duve is an
E.O. Wilson for the cell. In Life Evolving, De Duve lays bare the
molecular machinery of life, finding both explanation of our
evolutionary past and signs of what it will mean to be human in the
twenty-first century."--Andrew H. Knoll, Fisher Professor of
Natural History, Harvard University
"A well-written, engaging scientific tour de force.... de Duve
exhibits an extraordinary skill in conveying his deep knowledge of
biology.... Both a first-rate scholar and an accomplished
popularizer of science...de Duve moves with equal familiarity and
eloquence from scientific papers to French poets.... Life Evolving
forces the reader to avoid intellectual complacency and to
articulate one's own arguments to effectively address his position.
These
are, in themselves, major reasons to appreciate the
book."--Science
"This book is addressed to the educated lay person interested in
the origin of life, its evolution to the present day and its
philosophical implications. The reader is in for a treat of
unsurpassed lucid and poetic writing. It is the testament of one of
the great biologist-philosophers of our time."--Gunter Blobel,
Nobel Laureate in Physiology and Medicine
"An original thinker and graceful writer, Christian de Duve is an
E.O. Wilson for the cell. In Life Evolving, De Duve lays bare the
molecular machinery of life, finding both explanation of our
evolutionary past and signs of what it will mean to be human in the
twenty-first century."--Andrew H. Knoll, Fisher Professor of
Natural History, Harvard University
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