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  How We Live and Why We Die: The Secret Lives of Cells (Paperback) By (author) Lewis Wolpert

  

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  Short Description for How We Live and Why We DieIn the tradition of the classic "Lives of a Cell," but with the benefit of the latest research, an internationally acclaimed embryologist demonstrates how human life derives from a single cell and then grows into a body, an incredibly complex society made up of billions of them.
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  • Publisher: WW Norton & Co
  • Published: 04 February 2011
  • Format: Paperback 240 pages
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  • Categories: Popular Science | Cellular Biology (cytology) | Microbiology (non-medical) | Human Biology | Coping With Old Age
  • ISBN 13: 9780393339383 ISBN 10: 0393339386
  • Sales rank: 659,867

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• 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 bacteria to the most complex animals. In the tradition of the classic Lives of a Cell, but with the benefit of the latest research, Lewis Wolpert demonstrates how human life grows from a single cell into a body, an incredibly complex society of billions of cells. Wolpert goes on to examine the science behind topics that are much discussed but rarely understood--stem-cell research, cloning, DNA, cancer--and explains how all life on earth evolved from just one cell. Lively and passionate, this is an accessible guide to understanding the human body and life itself.