Jim Al-Khalili, Johnjoe McFadden

Life on the Edge

The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology

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Produktbeschreibung

Are we missing a vital ingredient in its creation? Like Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene, which provided a new perspective on evolution, Life on the Edge alters our understanding of life's dynamics as Jim Al-Khalili and Johnjoe Macfadden reveal the hitherto missing ingredient to be quantum mechanics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Black Swan / Random House UK
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 185632, 672441
• Seitenzahl: 460
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 126mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 320g
• ISBN-13: 9780552778077
• ISBN-10: 0552778079
• Artikelnr.: 43690702

Autorenporträt

Professor Jim Al-Khalili, OBE is an academic, author and broadcaster. He is a leading theoretical physicist based at the University of Surrey, where he teaches and carries out research in quantum mechanics. Professor Johnjoe McFadden is Professor of Molecular Genetics at the University of Surrey and is the editor of leading text books on both molecular biology and systems biology of tuberculosis. For over a decade, he has specialised in examining tuberculosis and meningitis.

Rezensionen

Hugely ambitious ... the skill of the writing provides the uplift to keep us aloft as we fly through the strange and spectacular terra incognita of genuinely new science. Tom Whipple The Times