# The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life

- **Author:** Nick Lane
- **Read:** February 2017
- **Topic:** Science and Math
- **Published:** 2001
- **Pages:** 352
- **Picked by:** Nick
- **ISBN-13:** 9780393352979
- **Open Library:** https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19663289W
- **Cover:** https://rwbookclub.com/assets/images/covers/the-vital-question-324.jpg
- **Canonical page:** https://rwbookclub.com/books/the-vital-question/

## Synopsis

A biochemist, building on the pillars of evolutionary theory and drawing on cutting-edge research into the link between energy and genes, argues that the evolution of multicellular life was the result of a single event.