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The vital question : why is life the way it is?

by Nick Lane

This study investigates how energy constraints drove the evolution of complex life and its universal characteristics, such as sex and ageing. It analyses the bioenergetic principles underlying the transition from simple bacteria to multicellular organisms.

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