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Nick Lane, “A Matter of Energy: Biology From First Principles” (Open Agenda, 2021)

New Books in Science

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The Importance of Writing and Taking a Synoptic View of Things

When i was at school I read books like richard dorkin's selfish, jeane ande double helix watson a read avidly at that age. And the reason i ended up leaving science again was that i never did come up with anything like a solution to kidney transplants. Because we can store these organs for two days at the most. That's a kidney for for a liver or along it's a matter of hours. It would make quite a difference in the world if you could do it.

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