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The Vital Question

The Vital Question

by Nick Lane

A biochemist, building on the pillars of evolutionary theory and drawing on cutting-edge research into the link between energy and genes, argues that the evolution of multicellular life was the result of a single event.

2001 356 pages W. W. Norton & Company 7 curators
Science
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