by Lewis Wolpert · Faber & Faber · tapa dura · ISBN 9780571239115
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«How We Live and Why We Die: The Secret Lives of Cells» is a popular science essay by Lewis Wolpert, published by Faber & Faber in hardcover.
Cells are the basis of all life and the human body contains billions of them. Wolpert explains how the organism arises from a single cell, the embryo, and addresses stem cell research, cloning and DNA; he also explains why we age or fall ill when cells fail.
The work is written in English, consists of 288 pages and was published on April 2, 2009. It is classified in the Science category.
It is aimed at general readers interested in popular science and in how the human body works.
Lewis Wolpert was a South African-born British developmental biologist, author, and broadcaster. Wolpert popularized his French flag model of embryonic development, using the colours of the French flag as a visual aid to explain how embryonic cells interpret genetic code for expressing characteristics of living organisms and explaining how signalling between cells early in morphogenesis could inform cells with the same genetic regulatory network of their position and role.
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