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Seventy years ago, Erwin Schrödinger posed a profound question: 'What is life, and how did it emerge from non-life?' This problem has puzzled biologists and ph

Collects six short illustrated volumes covering topics in mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, evolution, and astronomy.