About the book: 2014 / How did life originate? Where did the DNA come from? Why are we dying? In recent decades, scientists have been able to shed light on these and other questions about the origin and organization of life. The famous English biochemist reconstructs the history of all living things, describing the best inventions of evolution, and tells how each of them, starting with life itself and genes and ending with consciousness and death, transformed the nature of our planet and even the planet itself.