What is life? : how chemistry becomes biology /
In his famous 1944 text What is Life? Erwin Schrodinger pointed out how strange living systems appeared to be when viewed from a strictly physical standpoint. All living systems are highly organized and the emergence of these organized systems would seem to contradict the most basic tenets of physic...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
Ã2012.
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Edición: | 1st ed. |
Colección: | Oxford landmark science.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Livings things are so very strange
- The quest for a theory of life
- Understanding 'understanding'
- Stability and instability
- The knotty origin of life problem
- Biology's crisis of identity
- Biology is chemistry
- What is life?