THE LIVES OF A CELL
by LEWIS THOMAS
153 pages. Viking. $6.95.
"Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise," Biologist Lewis Thomas writes in The Lives of a Cell. Thomas' sense of contented dazzlement and his delight in scientific discovery are familiar to readers of his column, "Notes of a Biology Watcher," which appears regularly in the austere New England Journal of Medicine. His book, a collection of some of...
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