Creation: The Story of Life on Earth and How We Are About to Start it Again

In Creation: The Story of Life on Earth and How We Are About to Start it Again, Adam Rutherford explains that we're on the cusp of perhaps the most significant event in human history: the creation of synthetic life.

All living organisms on the planet today can trace their lineage back to a single cell floating somewhere in the primordial ocean and that single animating spark has passed in unbroken sequence through each being for the last four billion years. However, in the next few years, this will cease to be true. Scientists will create, in a laboratory, the conditions in which new life, a second spark, will ignite. It will be the beginning of a technological revolution that will dictate the shape of the 21st century. It will change everything.

This is the astonishing story of the journey towards the second genesis.