"The author provides an easy-to-understand encapsulation of the salient points of the workings of life and demonstrates how their application can lead to exciting avenues of thought. After touching on the genome, natural selection, and evolution, the author then delves into epigenetics, memory, identity, and 'levels of description,' establishing the groundwork for any reader to grasp his concept of organum: a discrete living unit that undergoes natural selection. The world around us--and inside us--is an arrangement of living things embedded within one another at various scsales in space and time." -iD Magazine
