What is life? Understand biology in five simple steps

What is life? Following Dokinz, Hawking and Atheboro, an outstanding British scientist, Nobel laureate in medicine and physiology, Paul Nerva seeks to answer one of the most important issues of science. It is available and clearly explaining the basic processes and phenomena, without which life would not be possible, it represents in the book fundamental ideas, telling where they come from, why they are so important and how they echoes each other. A cell, gene, evolution by natural selection, life as a chemical process and life as a stream of information - these concepts - alpha and omega of modern biology.
“I am considering five great concepts of biology, using which we will take a step as steps step by step in order to achieve a more clear idea of ​​how life works. I will unite them in a new way and use them to develop a number of general principles that reveal the concept of “life”. I hope they will help you see the living world with a fresh look. ”