From Atoms to a Tree. Introduction to the Modern Life Science

What are living organisms made of and what does carbon have to do with it? What is genetic code, what are viruses, and how was evolutionary tree created? What was the reason behind the Cambrian explosion? This book provides answers to these and many other questions. The focus of the story is evolution of life on Earth: the author believes that only in this point of view very different biological problems acquire a single meaning. The book is divided into four parts, with their topics expanding gradually: Chemistry of Life, Mechanism of Life, Tree of Life, and History of life.

The book is aimed at a wide range of readers who are seriously interested in modern biology.

Moscow: Alpina Non-Fiction, 2018

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