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1 Online-Ressource (xi, 191 pages)
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digital, PDF file(s)
ISBN:
9780511623295
Content:
Erwin Schrödinger's book What is Life? had a tremendous influence on the development of molecular biology, stimulating scientists such as Watson and Crick to explore the physical basis of life. Much of the appeal of Schrödinger's book lay in its approach to the central problems in biology - heredity and how organisms use energy to maintain order - from a physicist's perspective. At Trinity College, Dublin a number of outstanding scientists from a range of disciplines gathered to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of What is Life? and following Schrödinger's example fifty years previously, presented their views on the current central problems in biology. The contributors to this volume include Stephen Jay Gould, Roger Penrose, Jared Diamond, Manfred Eigen, John Maynard Smith, Christien de Duve and Lewis Wolpert. This collection is essential reading for anyone interested in biology and its future
Content:
What is life? The next fifty years. An introduction / Michael P. Murphy and Luke A.J. O'Neill -- What will endure of 20th century biology? / Manfred Eigen -- "What is life?" as a problem in history / Stephen Jay Gould -- The evolution of human inventiveness / Jared Diamond -- Development: is the egg computable or could we generate an angel or a dinosaur? / Lewis Wolpert -- Language and life / John Maynard Smith and Eörs Szathmáry -- RNA without protein or protein without RNA? / Christian de Duve -- "What is life?": was Schrödinger right? / Stuart A. Kauffman -- Why new physics is needed to understand the mind / Roger Penrose -- Do the laws of nature evolve? / Walter Thirring -- New laws to be expected in the organism: synergetics of brain and behaviour / J.A. Scott Kelso and Hermann Haken -- Order from disorder: the thermodynamics of complexity in biology / Eric D. Schneider and James J. Kay -- Reminiscences / Ruth Braunizer
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521455091
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521599399
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780521455091
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511623295
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