Review: Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology by Johnjoe Mc Fadden and Jim Al-Khalili
Review: Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology Johnjoe Mc Fadden and Jim Al-Khalili Crown Publishers 2014 Quantum biology? I had never seen those two words together before, so I had to read this book. And now I have and liked many parts of it. The authors try to explain quantum biology to the lay person, like me, and after reading this I understand at least some of it. Repeated warnings appear throughout the text that the subject is not really as simple as some of their examples, so there’s much more out there than they included in this book. Early portions of the book include a history of the development of quantum theory and many notable people related to that. How do robins know where to go when it’s time to migrate? What does that have to do with quantum mechanics? And what has any of that to do with biology? It’s quite a task for the reader to keep up with all the dots that must be con...