So Simple a Beginning (Raghuveer Parthasarathy)

This audiobook narrated by Anand Jagatia reveals the hidden unity behind nature's breathtaking complexity The form and function of a sprinting cheetah are quite unlike those of a rooted tree. A human being is very different from a bacterium or a zebra. The living world is a realm of dazzling variety, yet a shared set of physical principles shapes the forms and behaviors of every creature in it.

Author:: Raghuveer Parthasarathy
Narrator:: Anand Jagatia
Content:: Unabridged (chapter list)
Length:: 9:25 h
Format:: MP3 download (381 MB)
Language:: English
Publisher:: Princeton University Press (2022)
Genre:: Science
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01 - Opening Anno, Introduction	26:20	18 MB
02 - Part 1, The Ingredients of Life, Chapter 1 - DNA A Code and a Cord	25:05	17 MB
03 - Chapter 2 - Proteins Molecular Origami	26:03	17 MB
04 - Chapter 3 - Genes and the Mechanics of DNA	33:20	22 MB
05 - Chapter 4 - The Choreography of Genes	32:06	21 MB
06 - Chapter 5 - Membranes A Liquid Skin	27:41	19 MB
07 - Chapter 6 - Predictable Randomness	22:14	15 MB
08 - Part 2, Living Large, Chapter 7 - Assembling Embryos	37:46	25 MB
09 - Chapter 8 - Organs by Design	22:39	15 MB
10 - Chapter 9 - The Ecosystem Inside You	48:02	32 MB
11 - Chapter 10 - A Sense of Scale	33:10	21 MB
12 - Chapter 11 - Life at the Surface	21:29	14 MB
13 - Chapter 12 - Mysteries of Size and Shape	27:01	18 MB
14 - Part 3, Organisms by Design, Chapter 13 - How We Read DNA	44:16	29 MB
15 - Chapter 14 - Genetic Combinations	47:58	31 MB
16 - Chapter 15 - How We Write DNA	51:24	34 MB
17 - Chapter 16 - Designing the Future, Closing Anno	38:30	25 MB

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Summary

This audiobook narrated by Anand Jagatia reveals the hidden unity behind nature's breathtaking complexity
The form and function of a sprinting cheetah are quite unlike those of a rooted tree. A human being is very different from a bacterium or a zebra. The living world is a realm of dazzling variety, yet a shared set of physical principles shapes the forms and behaviors of every creature in it. So Simple a Beginning shows how the emerging new science of biophysics is transforming our understanding of life on Earth and enabling potentially lifesaving but controversial technologies such as gene editing, artificial organ growth, and ecosystem engineering.
Raghuveer Parthasarathy explains how four basic principles—self-assembly, regulatory circuits, predictable randomness, and scaling—shape the machinery of life on scales ranging from microscopic molecules to gigantic elephants. He describes how biophysics is helping to unlock the secrets of a host of natural phenomena, such as how your limbs know to form at the proper places, and why humans need lungs but ants do not. Parthasarathy explores how the cutting-edge biotechnologies of tomorrow could enable us to alter living things in ways both subtle and profound.
This sweeping tour of biophysics offers astonishing new perspectives on how the wonders of life can arise from so simple a beginning.

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