How Did Life End Up With Us? - Review
Book 1: How Did Life End Up With Us?
Book One in non-fiction series – The Secrets of Life: From Big Bang to Trump
The Secrets of Life series is written for everyone who, frankly, needs a spot of cheering up, and will provide conversation starters for years after reading! O’Connor’s easy-going, conversational style brings an outsider’s questioning eye to the great forces behind life.
The first book in the four-part series contends that if we set received wisdom to one side and really dig into the facts, there are actually very few ‘secrets’ in life. Instead, suggesting it’s possible to see that from the split second of Big Bang, right up to our present attempts to make the world a better place, everything that’s alive has been trying to find strategies to survive the iron Laws of Thermodynamics, to work together to make more from less, and to overcome the constant threat of destructive, entropic forces.
How Did Life End Up With Us? delves into explanations as to the reasons behind why cooperation is the strongest force in life, and why altruism is the proof for the ‘gene-based theory of evolution’.
O’Connor reveals that from the point that life first sparked off some 3.8 billion years ago, every living thing has descended from the original cell by taking blind mutational and genetic ‘decisions’.
Through The Secrets of Life series, aimed at general readers like himself, O’Connor recognises that life may appear as an endless and violent conflict, yet under the obvious requirement to take one another’s energy, there’s always been a deeper current that’s driving living things to higher and higher levels of cooperation. In other words, the future isn’t quite as bleak as you may believe!
My Thoughts
I was really intrigued by this series. I was initially drawn to book 2 and was kindly sent book 1 also and I am so glad I got this opportunity
What I liked about this book was that it is a conversation starter and will open up a health debate. In doing so it creates a debate and dialogue and different opinions from different people.
It takes a philosophical approach and at times it can get technical. I didn't mind this as It meant I had to do my own reading and research to learn some new facts and information. If you are looking for a book with answers and scientific then this wont appeal to you but I think it is well researched.
I liked how the author added some humour to the book and it uplifted the book in my opinion. The chapters are short and timely and the flow of each one was really well done. Good explanations and structure to the book.
The aesthetics of the people is very eye catching and draws you in and is nicely presented.
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