Life. Brockman D.

The collection "Life" from the series "On the tip of thought" is the next portion of the chosen materials of the scientific and disposable portal Edge.org. The authors of the book are the stars of modern genetics, theoretical physics, theoretical biology, pioneers of bioenginery: Craig Venter, David Heig, Dimitar Sasselov, Rodney Brooks and other famous scientists. They talk about the Human Genome project, discuss 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 subordinated to the Darwin logic of evolution of the theoretical physicist Freeman Dyson reflects on the future of life-whether it will be analog or digital ? - And the famous geneticist Svante Paabo, who managed to mention the Neanderthal genome, is plunged, on the contrary, in the story of the distant past...