Books like Biogenesis by Noam Lahav

Sam Harris examines how faith, reason and politics collide, arguing that unchecked religious belief fuels conflict and that a secular, humanistic foundation is essential for ethics and spirituality.

Kurzweil explores the coming fusion of human minds with advanced machines, predicting that integrated intelligence will surpass current human capacity, shaping future society.

"Epigenetics can potentially revolutionize our understanding of the structure and behavior of biological life on Earth. It explains why mapping an organism's genetic code is not enough to determine how it develops or acts and shows how nurture combines with nature to engineer biological diversity. Surveying the twenty-year history of the field while also highlighting its latest findings and innovations, this volume provides a readily understandable introduction to the foundations of epigenetics. Nessa Carey, a leading epigenetics researcher, connects the field's arguments to such diverse phenomena as how ants and queen bees control their colonies; why tortoiseshell cats are always female; why some plants need cold weather before they can flower; and how our bodies age and develop disease. Reaching beyond biology, epigenetics now informs work on drug addiction, the long-term effects of famine, and the physical and psychological consequences of childhood trauma. Carey concludes with a discussion of the future directions for this research and its ability to improve human health and well-being."--Amazon.com.

Describes scientists' attempts to find out how life began, including such topics as spontaneous generation and evolution.

What is Life? explores how chemistry alone can give rise to the complex, self-maintaining properties of living systems, arguing that Darwinian evolution emerges from a fundamental chemical principle that links replicating molecules to complex life.