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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pross, Addy, 1945-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Ã2012.
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?