How Life Works - A User¿s Guide to the New Biology

<p><b>'An essential primer on humanity&rsquo;s ongoing quest to understand the secrets of life . . . Excellent . . . Ball is a terrific writer.' &ndash; Adam Rutherford, <i>The Guardian</i><br><br>'Ball is a ferociously gifted science writer . . . There is so much [here] that is amazing . . . urgent . . . astonishing.' &ndash; <i>The Sunday Times</i><br><br>A cutting-edge new vision of biology that proposes to revise our concept of what life is &ndash; from Science Book Prize winner Philip Ball.</b><br><br>Biology is undergoing a quiet but profound transformation. Several aspects of the standard picture of how life works have been exposed as incomplete, misleading, or wrong.<br><br>In <i>How Life Works</i>, Philip Ball explores the new biology, revealing life to be a far richer, more ingenious affair than we had guessed. With this knowledge come new poss