Can life exist without genes? What will living things be like in the future and how did life evolve in the first place? ‘“Life Without Genes” is gloriously playful, enticing, eye-opening and heartening.’ Scotsman
‘Lucid and entertaining...From Airfix kit-inspired, “Just-So” stories to lucid descriptions of the work of the mathematician Ilya Prigogine, Woolfson is a virtuoso in full command of extraordinary material.’ Simon Inges
Taking us beyond biology and genes, Adrian Woolfson changes our view of the future forever. Might giraffes grow taller than skyscrapers? How could crocodiles stay underwater for more than an hour? Is it possible to turn a stickleback into a daffodil, or a tiger into a porcupine? Woolfson asks us to imagine a hypermarket stocked with every possible type of toy in the universe, to see DNA as a infinitely flexible Lego, and he takes us on swirling Peter Pan-like trips through our own genes, showing us the full scope (and perils) of genetic engineering. A uniquely accessible work of science, with shades of Huxley, Lewis Carroll and Darwin, ‘Life Without Genes’ presents a truly startling vision of a future where the consequences of our current genetic experiments turn out to be both stranger and more foreign than we ever imagined.
‘Fine-woven from dreams, swooping around the outer edges of the imaginable, “Life Without Genes” takes us to some mind-boggling conceptual spaces, conjuring into existence frightening Borgesian worlds, to make us question our assumptions about life...Wildly, ferally enjoyable.’ Lisa Gee, Scotland on Sunday
Can life exist without genes? What will living things be like in the future and how did life evolve in the first place? Taking us beyond biology, through ground-breaking analysis of all the genetic clues in each of us, Adrian Woolfson changes our view of the future forever. Might giraffes grow taller than skyscrapers? How could crocodiles stay underwater for more than hour? Is it possible to turn a stickleback into a daffodil, or a tiger into a porcupine? Woolfson asks us to imagine a hypermarket stocked with every possible type of toy in the universe, to see DNA as a infinitely flexible Lego and takes us on swirling Peter Pan-like trips through our own genes, showing us the full scope (and perils) of genetic engineering. A uniquely accessible work of science, with shades of Huxley, Lewis Carroll and Darwin, 'Life Without Genes' presents a truly startling vision of a future where the consequences of our current genetic experiments turn out to be both stranger and more foreign than we ever imagined.
'Lucid and entertaining...From Airfix kit-inspired, Just So stories to lucid descriptions of the work of the mathematician Ilya Prigogine, Woolfson is a virtuoso in full command of extraordinary material.'
SIMON INGS
'Five-woven from dreams, swooping around the outer edges of the imaginable, 'Life Without Genes' takes us to some mind-boggling conceptual spaces, conjuring into existence frightening Borgesian worlds, to make us question our assumptions about life...Communicating a sophisticated understanding of cutting-edge genetic research, Woolfson lifts Darwinian evolution free...wildly, ferally enjoyable.'
LISA GEE 'Scotland on Sunday'
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