A life

The collection Life from the series On the tip of thought is another portion of selected materials of the scientific and dissectional portal Edge.org. The authors of the book are the stars of modern genetics, theoretical physics, theoretical biology, pioneers of bioenginery: Craig Venter, David Hayig, Dimitar Sasselov, Rodney Brooks and other famous scientists. They talk about the Human Genome project, discuss the controversial issues of modern biology.
Richard Dokins again defends his concept of the “selfish gene” and argues that life at any point in the Universe will inevitably be subordinate to the Darwin logic of evolution, physicist-theoretic Freeman Dyson Thinking about the future of life - will it be analog or digital? - And the famous geneticist Svante PEABO, who managed to make a Neanderthal genome, plunges, on the contrary, in the story of the distant past