CONTENTS

Preface

Introduction

1. What Is Life? Chemistry

2. What Is Life? Information

3. Where Does Life Come From?

4. How Did Life Arise? The Way to RNA

5. How Did Life Arise? From RNA to Protein-DNA

6. How Did Life Arise? The Birth of Cells

7. The History of Life

8. The Invisible World of Bacteria

9. The Mysterious Birth of Eukaryotes: The Problem

10. The Mysterious Birth of Eukaryotes: A Possible Pathway

11. The Visible Revolution

12. The Arrow of Evolution

13. Becoming Human

14. The Riddle of the Brain

15. Reshaping Life

16. After Us, What?

17. Are We Alone?

18. How About God in All That?

Envoy

Notes

Index