What is life? the next fifty years : speculations on the future of biology
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...
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Inhaltsangabe:
- 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