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Nick Lane is Professor of Evolutionary Biochemistry and Director of the UCL Centre for Life’s Origins and Evolution (CLOE) at University College London. His research is on how energy flow has shaped how life works and with it the peculiar history of life on earth, from the origin of life itself to the singular emergence of complex eukaryotic cells and the evolution of traits such as sex, ageing and even consciousness. Nick has published more than 130 papers in leading journals including Nature, Cell and Science, and written five celebrated books which have been translated into 30 languages. He was awarded the Royal Society Science Book Prize for Life Ascending, the Biochemical Society Award for his contribution to the molecular biosciences, and the Royal Society Michael Faraday Prize for excellence in communicating science. Bill Gates called The Vital Question “an amazing inquiry into the origins of life”.
