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Paradoxical Life : Meaning, Matter, and the Power of Human Choice /

What can a fingernail tell us about the mysteries of creation? In one sense, a nail is merely a hunk of mute matter, yet in another, it's an information superhighway quite literally at our fingertips. Every moment, streams of molecular signals direct our cells to move, flatten, swell, shrink, d...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wagner, Andreas (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2009]
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