The Code of Life is like a book of 100,000 whys? To be able to genetically solve a variety of problems that are common in our daily lives but do not know why. Why don't elephants get cancer, for example? Why do sunflowers always face the sun and are resistant to nuclear radiation? What are our misconceptions about crayfish? The unique evolutionary path of flowers to survive and reproduce, the strength of ants, and many assumptions about the human body and conjectures about the future.
When the birth of the earth is condensed into a year's time, human beings have only a few tens of seconds to develop from the beginning of the use of iron tools to modern society. This metaphor vividly explains how small man is to the earth and the whole natural world, from the Cambrian life explosion to the present, life from scratch, how many organisms have gone extinct for various reasons, always around survival and reproduction to continuously modify their own genes, but also to transform the world, and human beings for the earth is only one of thousands of species.
We see that the whole of life, and even the entire universe, is formed by the combination of basic units of information or material by the repetition and permutation of different forms. In fact, the essence of all things in this world is the same, but the slight differences in it have created this colorful world, just as the difference between the 3 billion and five thousandths of the bases of human genes has caused so much difference between people and people.
I have seen some videos of Yin Ye on the Internet, and I saw what is called "belly poetry and bookish self-glory" in a person who can read more than 200 books a year, and I was decisively circled by fans, so I found this book, and the results did not disappoint, the key is that this book can definitely satisfy your curiosity about the biological field.