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So Simple a Beginning
How Four Physical Principles Shape Our Living WorldBy Raghuveer ParthasarathyNarrated by Anand Jagatia
Length9h 25m
About this audiobook
This audiobook narrated by Anand Jagatia reveals the hidden unity behind nature's breathtaking complexity
The form and function of a sprinting cheetah are quite unlike those of a rooted tree. A human being is very different from a bacterium or a zebra. The living world is a realm of dazzling variety, yet a shared set of physical principles shapes the forms and behaviors of every creature in it.
So Simple a Beginning shows how the emerging new science of biophysics is transforming our understanding of life on Earth and enabling potentially lifesaving but controversial technologies such as gene editing, artificial organ growth, and ecosystem engineering.
Raghuveer Parthasarathy explains how four basic principles—self-assembly, regulatory circuits, predictable randomness, and scaling—shape the machinery of life on scales ranging from microscopic molecules to gigantic elephants. He describes how biophysics is helping to unlock the secrets of a host of natural phenomena, such as how your limbs know to form at the proper places, and why humans need lungs but ants do not. Parthasarathy explores how the cutting-edge biotechnologies of tomorrow could enable us to alter living things in ways both subtle and profound.
This sweeping tour of biophysics offers astonishing new perspectives on how the wonders of life can arise from so simple a beginning.
Audiobook details
GenreScience and Nature
Length9 hrs 25 mins
Narrated byAnand Jagatia
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateFeb 8, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Opening Anno, Introduction
10Chapter 9 - The Ecosystem Inside You
2Part 1, The Ingredients of Life, Chapter 1 - DNA: A Code and a Cord
11Chapter 10 - A Sense of Scale
3Chapter 2 - Proteins: Molecular Origami
12Chapter 11 - Life at the Surface
4Chapter 3 - Genes and the Mechanics of DNA
13Chapter 12 - Mysteries of Size and Shape
5Chapter 4 - The Choreography of Genes
14Part 3, Organisms by Design, Chapter 13 - How We Read DNA
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6Chapter 5 - Membranes: A Liquid Skin
15Chapter 14 - Genetic Combinations
7Chapter 6 - Predictable Randomness
16Chapter 15 - How We Write DNA
8Part 2, Living Large, Chapter 7 - Assembling Embryos
17Chapter 16 - Designing the Future, Closing Anno
9Chapter 8 - Organs by Design
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