Zhizn' - Pod red. Dzhona Brokmana

The collection "Life" from the series "On the edge of thought" is another portion of selected materials of the scientific and discussion portal Edge.org. The authors of the book are stars of modern genetics, theoretical physics, theoretical biology, pioneers of bioengineering: Craig Venter, David Hague, Dimitar Sasselov, Rodney Brooks and other famous scientists. They talk about the Human Genome project, discuss the controversial issues of modern biology. Richard Dawkins once again defends his concept of the "selfish gene" and argues that life anywhere in the universe will inevitably be subject to the Darwinian logic of evolution; Theoretical physicist Freeman Dyson reflects on the future of life - will it be analog or digital? - and the famous geneticist Svante Paabo, who managed to map the genome of a Neanderthal, is immersed, on the contrary, in a story about the distant past ...