What Is Life?: Five Great Ideas in Biology, Paul Nurse
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What Is Life?: Five Great Ideas in Biology

Author: Paul Nurse

Narrator: Paul Nurse

Unabridged: 5 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook

Publisher: Highbridge Audio

Published: 03/23/2021

Genre: Science - Life Sciences - Biology

Synopsis

The renowned biologist Paul Nurse has spent his career revealing how living cells work. In What Is Life?, he takes up the challenge of describing what it means to be alive in a way that every listener can understand.

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