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The Life Beyond Molecules and Genes : In Search of Harmony between Life and Science.
What makes us alive? Is it our DNA? Our genetics? Is it our atomic composition that gives us life? Somehow, all of this feels radically dissonant from our everyday experience. In Life beyond Molecules and Genes, experimental biologist Stephen Rothman makes the bold case that it is, in fact, our adap...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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West Conshohocken :
Templeton Foundation Press,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: What Is It That Makes an Object Alive?; Chapter 1: Life Forces and Vital Substances: The Path from Vitalism to Materialism; Chapter 2: The Material Causes of Life: The Modern Perspective; Chapter 3: Coming into Being: The Origin of Aliveness; Chapter 4: A More Refi ned Understanding: A Modern View of What Is Necessary for Life; Chapter 5: A Suffi cient Property of Life: A Search for the Properties That Attest to Our Being Alive.