How We Live and Why We Die: The Secret Lives of Cells

by Lewis Wolpert

Book Overview

Everything about our existence movement and memory, imagination and reproduction, birth and, ultimately, death is governed by our cells. They are the basis of all life in the universe, from the tiniest bacteria to the most complex animals. In the tradition of the classic Lives of a Cell, but with the benefit of the latest research, internationally acclaimed embryologist Lewis Wolpert demonstrates how human life derives from a single cell and then...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393072215
• ISBN13: 9780393072211
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 8.6"