British biochemist at UCL — author of Life Ascending, The Vital Question, Power, Sex, Suicide — who writes on the biochemical origins of life and the evolution of complex life with unusual depth and ambition.
Creates the alkaline hydrothermal vent hypothesis for the origin of life as a biochemically rigorous account — Lane's The Vital Question argues that life originated in submarine alkaline hydrothermal vents (not Darwin's warm little pond) and provides the most detailed biochemical account of how the first cells could have formed.
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