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The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 5,797 ratings — published 2015
Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 1,027 ratings — published 2022
What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 7,554 ratings — published 1944
What Is Life?: Five Great Ideas in Biology (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.94 — 2,625 ratings — published 2020
A New History of Life: The Radical New Discoveries about the Origins and Evolution of Life on Earth (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 562 ratings — published 2015
Assembling Life: How Can Life Begin on Earth and Other Habitable Planets? (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.96 — 24 ratings — published
Genesis: The Scientific Quest for Life's Origin (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.22 — 342 ratings — published 2005
What is Life?: How Chemistry Becomes Biology (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.93 — 1,058 ratings — published 2012
The Origin and Nature of Life on Earth: The Emergence of the Fourth Geosphere (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.40 — 43 ratings — published 2016
The Emergence of Life: From Chemical Origins to Synthetic Biology (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 31 ratings — published 2006
Beginnings of Cellular Life: Metabolism Recapitulates Biogenesis (Bio-Origins Series)
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avg rating 4.10 — 10 ratings — published 1992
Life Itself: A Comprehensive Inquiry Into the Nature, Origin, and Fabrication of Life (Complexity in Ecological Systems)
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avg rating 4.16 — 83 ratings — published 1991
Origins of Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 235 ratings — published 1986
Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.21 — 228 ratings — published 2007
What Is Life? (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 273 ratings — published 1995
Summary of Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.39 — 1,122 ratings — published
Infinite in All Directions (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 388 ratings — published 1988
The quest for Mars: the NASA scientists and their search for life beyond Earth (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.25 — 4 ratings — published
Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 3,660 ratings — published 2005
A Brief History of Creation: Science and the Search for the Origin of Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 517 ratings — published 2015
Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 1,060 ratings — published 2024
Paradoxical Life: Meaning, Matter, and the Power of Human Choice (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 20 ratings — published 2009
How Light Makes Life: The Hidden Wonders and World-Saving Powers of Photosynthesis (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.80 — 66 ratings — published
The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.97 — 4,496 ratings — published 2018
Chance and Necessity: An Essay on the Natural Philosophy of Modern Biology (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 1,039 ratings — published 1970
Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.11 — 3,685 ratings — published 2014
The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.75 — 2,398 ratings — published 2017
The Genesis Quest: The Geniuses and Eccentrics on a Journey to Uncover the Origin of Life on Earth (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 82 ratings — published
Seven Clues to the Origin of Life: A Scientific Detective Story (Canto)
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avg rating 4.01 — 164 ratings — published 1985
Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.94 — 2,234 ratings — published 2021
The Principles of Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.25 — 8 ratings — published 2003
Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.11 — 5,397 ratings — published 2017
Life's Engines: How Microbes Made Earth Habitable (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.03 — 523 ratings — published 2015
Every Life is on Fire: How Thermodynamics Explains the Origins of Living Things (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.24 — 238 ratings — published 2020
The Stairway To Life: An Origin-Of-Life Reality Check (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.41 — 29 ratings — published
The Big Bang Never Happened: A Startling Refutation of the Dominant Theory of the Origin of the Universe (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 179 ratings — published 1991
A World Beyond Physics: The Emergence and Evolution of Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.75 — 310 ratings — published 2019
The Cosmic Zoo: Complex Life on Many Worlds (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.71 — 24 ratings — published
Rare Earth: Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in the Universe (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 1,064 ratings — published 1999
The Fifth Miracle: The Search for the Origin and Meaning of Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 497 ratings — published 1999
Life Evolving: Molecules, Mind, and Meaning (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 58 ratings — published 2002
The Cooperative Gene: How Mendel's Demon Explains the Evolution of Complex Beings (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.96 — 97 ratings — published 2000
Deep Simplicity: Bringing Order to Chaos and Complexity (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.97 — 1,473 ratings — published 2004
Od Gee do sebičnog gena (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.25 — 4 ratings — published 1997
The Machinery of Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.43 — 719 ratings — published 1992
The Origin of Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 175 ratings — published 1998
The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.24 — 3,101 ratings — published 2012
The Everything Seed: A Story of Beginnings (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.45 — 44 ratings — published 2003
Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 3,327 ratings — published 1997
Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 5,302 ratings — published 2009
“In fact, none of the papers published in the JME over the entire course of its life as a journal has ever proposed a detailed model by which a complex biochemical system might have been produced in a gradual, step-by-step Darwinian fashion. Although many scientists ask how sequences can change or how chemicals necessary for life might be produced in the absence of cells, no one has ever asked in the pages of JME such questions as the following: How did the photosynthetic reaction center develop? How did intramolecular transport start? . . . The very fact that none of these problems is even addressed, let alone solved, is a very strong indication that Darwinism is an inadequate framework for understanding the origin of complex biochemical systems.”
― Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution
― Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution
“Intelligent Design is an answer to fine-tuning that does not appeal to most scientists. The multiverse offers another explanation.
If there are zillions of different universes with different properties—for example, some with nuclear forces much stronger than in our universe and some with nuclear forces much weaker—then some of those universes will allow the emergence of life and some will not.
Some of those universes will be dead, lifeless hulks of matter and energy, and some will permit the emergence of cells, plants and animals, minds.
From the huge range of possible universes predicted by the theories, the fraction of universes with life is undoubtedly small. But that doesn’t matter.
We live in one of the universes that permits life because otherwise we wouldn’t be here to ponder the question.”
― The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew
If there are zillions of different universes with different properties—for example, some with nuclear forces much stronger than in our universe and some with nuclear forces much weaker—then some of those universes will allow the emergence of life and some will not.
Some of those universes will be dead, lifeless hulks of matter and energy, and some will permit the emergence of cells, plants and animals, minds.
From the huge range of possible universes predicted by the theories, the fraction of universes with life is undoubtedly small. But that doesn’t matter.
We live in one of the universes that permits life because otherwise we wouldn’t be here to ponder the question.”
― The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew
