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Life's Ratchet: How Molecular Machines Extract Order from Chaos (1st Edition) by Peter M. Hoffmann, Robert Powell Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2012 ISBN-10: 0-465-02253-7 / 0465022537 ISBN-13: 978-0-465-02253-3 / 9780465022533 Life is an enduring mystery. Yet, science tells us that living beings are merely sophisticated structures of lifeless molecules. If this view is correct, where do the seemingly purposeful motions of cells and organisms originate? In Life's Ratchet, physicist Peter M. Hoffmann locates the answer to t |