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‘Life is Strange’ is Part two of our ‘Life’<\/strong><\/strong> Blog Series.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In my last post, ‘What is Life?’<\/strong>, the first post in this series on ‘Life<\/a>‘<\/strong>, I referenced a very interesting book by Addy Pross<\/a><\/strong>: “What is Life? How Chemistry Becomes Biology”<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first chapter of Pross’s book is entitled “Living Things are so Very Strange”<\/strong>. In his first chapter, Pross tells us that living and non-living things are very different. He discusses how the remarkable advances in molecular biology over the past six decades has revealed the amazing complexity and diversity of nature’s design capabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Life is strange, and very diverse<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

He explains that these design capabilities and diversity of nature are evident at the visible macroscopic level, with literally millions of species inhabiting the Earth’s biosphere. But he points out that microbiologists are discovering that life’s design capabilities and diversity are even more numerous and extreme in the invisible world of microscopic life. Pross gives the example of the bacterial kingdom within the microscopic world being a source of ‘overwhelming, almost incomprehensible diversity, one that is just beginning to come to light’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But life’s design and diversity, Pross tells us, are just two of the characteristics of Life which makes life special. He identifies six characteristics of Life:<\/p>\n\n\n\n