The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher

Lewis Thomas, 1974

This is excellent reading for anyone interested in ideas about life and living. It inspires thought about how life functions. If there is one common theme, several chapters has to do with communication -- oral, chemical, behavioral, and genetic. Other possible themes include the fact that humans are part of the global system, not running it. Thomas poses the idea that everything can be an analogy of the way that a cell works -- organelles, membranes, cellular processes, products, and so forth.  Each chapter is a separate essay, elegantly written and way ahead of his time.

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