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Francis Crick, Life Itself: Its Origin and Nature. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1981.
Hard cover, 22 x 14.5 cm, dust wrapper, 192 pages, a few diagrams.
A little wear to dust wrapper with small chip missing from upper panel, owner's hand stamp on front free endpaper, a very few pen marks in margins, pen annotations on the rear free endpaper.
Otherwise, good condition.
Life Itself is a short popular-science book in which Crick explores one of the deepest scientific questions: how life began and what life fundamentally is. Rather than presenting a conventional explanation, the book is best known for proposing a provocative hypothesis called directed panspermia.
Crick was already famous for co-discovering the structure of DNA with James Watson in 1953, work that later earned them a Nobel Prize.
By the late 1970s, he had shifted from molecular biology toward deeper questions about the origin of life, the genetic code, and the possibility of life elsewhere in the universe
Life Itself was his attempt to present these questions to a broader audience and to outline speculative scientific possibilities.
