The Vital Question Book by Nick Lane

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✅ Stitched Binding

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✅ Language - English

✅ Dimensions - 5.5 x 8.26 inches

✅ Pages Amount 355

✅ Summary -

The Vital Question: Why is Life the Way it Is? (2015) by Nick Lane is a seminal work of popular science that argues energy, specifically how cells harness it, is the primary constraint that shaped the origin and evolution of life. Lane proposes that the jump from simple bacteria to complex multicellular life was not an inevitable outcome of natural selection but a rare "freak accident" of bioenergetics.