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Addy Pross: What is Life?: How Chemistry Becomes Biology (Oxford Landmark Science) [2016] paperback WCLAS the mysteries and threats growSeventy years ago, Erwin Schroedinger posed a profound question: 'What is life, and how did it emerge from non life?' This problem has puzzled biologists and physical scientists ever since. Living things are hugely complex and have unique properties, such as self maintenance and apparently purposeful behaviour which we do not see in inert matter. So how does chemistry give rise to biology? What could have led the first replicating molecules up such a