![]() ![]() "The way I addressed the problem was to identify the five great ideas of biology that characterise those ideas, and then take those great ideas and turn them into the principles that define life. "I think it's still a question: how do we distinguish between something that's alive and something that is inanimate - has never been alive? And it is central to biology, and quite curiously we've never really had a satisfactory answer, so I thought I'd have a shot at dealing with that question. Nurse is one of the most honoured scientists alive he is an English geneticist, former president of the Royal Society, director of the Francis Crick Institute, and has been awarded more than 60 honorary degrees and fellowships.īut he says defining life itself isn't a clear cut concept. ![]()
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