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To clarify the secret of how life advanced on Earth, Nick Lane explores the profound website link between energy and genes. THE PLANET EARTH teems with life: in its oceans, forests, skies, and locations. Yet there are a black hole in the centre of biology. We have no idea why intricate life is just how it is or, for example, how life first started. In The Vital Question, award-winning author and biochemist Nick Lane radically reframes evolutionary history, putting forward a remedy to conundrums which may have puzzled decades of scientists. For two and a half billion years, from the very origins of life, single-celled organisms such as bacteria evolved without changing their basic forms. Then, on just one occasion in four billion years, they made the leap to complexness. All intricate life, from mushrooms to man, shares puzzling features, such as gender, which are unfamiliar in bacteria. How and why did this radical transformation happen? The answer, Lane argues, lies in energy: All life on Earth lives off a voltage with the strength of a lightning bolt. Building on the pillars of evolutionary theory, Lane's hypothesis pulls on cutting-edge research into the website link between energy and cell biology to be able to provide a compelling account of progression from the very origins of life to the emergence of multicellular organisms while offering profound insights into our very own lives and fatalities. Both strenuous and charming, The Vital Question offers a solution to life's essential question: Why are we once we are, and even, why are we here at all?
