{"product_id":"about-life-concepts-in-modern-biology-9781402054174","title":"About Life: Concepts in Modern Biology","description":"\u003cp\u003eThanks to the popular media  and to books by Dawkins  Fortey  Gould  Margulis and other writers  people are informed about many aspects of biology. Everyone seems to know a little about evolution  for example  and about DNA and the possibilities (good and bad) afforded by research in molecular genetics. Most people know some of the arguments for and against the likelihood of life on other planets. And so on. We are glad that these pieces of information have become so widely available. However  we do not assume any particular knowledge (other than the most basic) in this book. Our aim is to address general questions rather than specific issues. We want to enable our readers to join their disparate pieces of knowledge about biology together. The most basic of these general questions  and perhaps the most difficult  can be expressed in beguilingly simple words: What is life? What does modern biology tell us about the essential differences between living organisms and the inanimate world? An attempt to answer this question takes us on a journey through almost the whole of contemporary cell and molecular biology  which occupies the first half of the book. The journey is worth the effort. The provisional answer we attain provides a coherent  unifying context in which we can discuss evolution  the origin of life  extraterrestrial life  the meaning of intelligence  the evolution of the human brain and the nature of mind.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45960494121013,"sku":"ByrdShop_1402054173","price":72.64,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781402054174.jpg?v=1788288968","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/about-life-concepts-in-modern-biology-9781402054174","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}