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Life beyond molecules and genes : how our adaptations make us alive /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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West Conshohocken, Pa. :
Templeton Press,
©2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: what is it that makes an object alive?
- Life forces and vital substances: the path from vitalism to materialism
- The material causes of life: the modern perspective
- Coming into being: the origin of aliveness
- A more refined understanding: a modern view of what is necessary for life
- A sufficient property of life: a search for the properties that attest to our being alive
- Dr. Bernard's adaptations: the internal adaptations of life and their critical role in understanding life's nature
- The physical world intrudes: how the physical world shapes our adaptive properties and us
- Adaptations as life: adaptations as the sufficient, lifegiving properties
- Spandrels and other irrelevancies: are there sufficient properties of life that are not adaptations?
- Life as complexity: the nature of biological complexity
- Harmony: the concordance of life and its science
- Conclusion: is there life beyond the genome?