A review by eloreads
Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution by Nick Lane

3.0

An interesting book with a greater focus on the cellular details of evolution and life than I expected. Unfortunately, I found a lot of the specific details to have explanations that either go over my head or just not be explained well enough. I found the level of prior knowledge the author expected to be inconsistent; sometimes very basic things were explained thoroughly (which I don't mind in a popular science book) and some areas that I did not have a prior understand of were never given an explanation. Despite these problems, I expect that a lot of the ideas presented in the book will stick with me and influence my thinking about life and its evolution.