Life – A phenomenon we do not understand
- Biological Sciences Popular Science
- Categories:Popular Science
- Language:German（Translation Services Available）
- Publication Place:Germany
- Publication date:November,2026
- Pages:176
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Feature
★Skillfully blending cultural history with natural science, and using vivid anecdotes and clear explanations, it guides readers to re-examine "life"—a phenomenon that seems familiar yet is not truly understood—and prompts us to reflect on the uniqueness of life and humanity's role in the world.
Description
We are living beings surrounded by many other living beings – people, dogs, tigers, cats, beech trees or birch trees. Nothing therefore seems as familiar to us as ‘life’. You might think so, but it isn’t true. For no geneticist can really say what a ‘gene’ is, and no physicist really knows what matter, energy or light are. Günter Theißen dares to tackle the unsolved mystery of life and offers vivid anecdotes and scientific insights. He advocates for radical honesty when it comes to acknowledging the limits of scientific knowledge. We need to understand the uniqueness of life and our role in the world before it’s too late
Author
Günter Theißen, born in 1962, studied biology in Düsseldorf, where he wrote his diploma thesis on viroids in 1987 and obtained his PhD on gene regulation in bacteria in 1991. From 1992 to 2001, he was head of a research group at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne, and in 2001 he took up a post as Professor of Botany at the University of Münster.
Since 2002, he has been the chairholder for Genetics at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena. Theißen has also written for publications including Die Zeit and Die Weltwoche.
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