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‘Original and awe-inspiring... an exhilarating tour of some of the most profound and important ideas in biology.’
— Michael La Page, New Scientist ‘Excellent and imaginative and, similar to life itself, the book is full of surprises.... Life Ascending is a fascinating book for anyone interested in life and evolution, and how these discoveries were made’
— Lewis Wolpert, Nature ‘If Charles Darwin sprang from his grave, I would give him this fine book to bring him up to speed. It’s a breathless bulletin from the accelerating rush of news about the secrets of life on planet earth.’
— Matt Ridley ‘Boldly tackling some of these apparently irreducible complexities... This is a science book that doesn’t cheat: the structure is logical, the writing is witty, and the hard questions are tackled head on’
— Tim Radford, Guardian ‘An excellent book. It is great fun, readable, bubbling over with enthusiasm, and not afraid of controversial, even weird, ideas... Hopeless as a bedside book: you'd never sleep.’
— Graham Cairns-Smith, Chemistry World | 
