Description: "One of the deepest, most illuminating books about the history of life to have been published in recent years." --The Economist
Brief description: Nick Lane is professor of evolutionary biochemistry at University College London and an award-winning author of five books. He codirects UCL's Centre for Life's Origins and Evolution (CLOE) and lives in London. Bill Gates calls him "one of my favorite science writers."
Review Quotes: If I were a rich man, I would buy up the print run of this book and give a copy to every science undergraduate ahead of his or her first course in cell biology.--Franklin Harold "Microbe"