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On Life
Cells, Genes, and the Evolution of Complexity
Buch von Franklin M. Harold
Sprache: Englisch

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Offering an inside look into the world around us, microbiologist Franklin M. Harold makes life intelligible for readers interested in biology. The book traces living things and how they operate, focusing on questions about the interaction between physics, chemistry, and biology.
Offering an inside look into the world around us, microbiologist Franklin M. Harold makes life intelligible for readers interested in biology. The book traces living things and how they operate, focusing on questions about the interaction between physics, chemistry, and biology.
Über den Autor
Franklin M . Harold is Professor Emeritus of biochemistry at Colorado State University and Affiliate Professor of microbiology at the University of Washington in Seattle. Born in Germany but raised in the Middle East, he moved to the United States and studied chemistry at the City College of New York. After obtaining his BS, he completed a PhD in comparative biochemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, and later held a postdoctoral fellowship at the California Institute of Technology. He has taught and conducted research for over forty years, mostly in Colorado. Now retired, he remains engaged with science as a writer and lecturer. He is the author of four books, most recently: In Search of Cell History (2014) and his autobiography, To Make the World Intelligible (2017).
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Preface

  • Acknowledgments

  • Part I: The Nature of Living Things

  • Chapter 1: Strange Objects

  • Chapter 2: Living Cells, Lifeless Molecules

  • Chapter 3: Life Makes Itself

  • Chapter 4: Putting the Cell in Order

  • Part II: The Web That Weaves Itself

  • Chapter 5: The Darwinian Outlook

  • Chapter 6: Evolution of the Cell

  • Chapter 7: The Perennial Riddle of Life's Origin

  • Part III: The Gyre of Complexity

  • Chapter 8: The Expansion of Life

  • Chapter 9: The Tangled Bank

  • Chapter 10: From Egg to Organism

  • Chapter 11: The Outer Banks of Order

  • Epilogue: Comprehensive, but Complex and Perplexing

  • Glossary

  • Notes

  • References

  • Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Philosophie
Jahrhundert: Antike
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9780197604540
ISBN-10: 0197604544
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Harold, Franklin M.
Hersteller: Oxford University Press Inc
Maße: 239 x 159 x 26 mm
Von/Mit: Franklin M. Harold
Erscheinungsdatum: 14.04.2022
Gewicht: 0,458 kg
Artikel-ID: 120412371
Über den Autor
Franklin M . Harold is Professor Emeritus of biochemistry at Colorado State University and Affiliate Professor of microbiology at the University of Washington in Seattle. Born in Germany but raised in the Middle East, he moved to the United States and studied chemistry at the City College of New York. After obtaining his BS, he completed a PhD in comparative biochemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, and later held a postdoctoral fellowship at the California Institute of Technology. He has taught and conducted research for over forty years, mostly in Colorado. Now retired, he remains engaged with science as a writer and lecturer. He is the author of four books, most recently: In Search of Cell History (2014) and his autobiography, To Make the World Intelligible (2017).
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Preface

  • Acknowledgments

  • Part I: The Nature of Living Things

  • Chapter 1: Strange Objects

  • Chapter 2: Living Cells, Lifeless Molecules

  • Chapter 3: Life Makes Itself

  • Chapter 4: Putting the Cell in Order

  • Part II: The Web That Weaves Itself

  • Chapter 5: The Darwinian Outlook

  • Chapter 6: Evolution of the Cell

  • Chapter 7: The Perennial Riddle of Life's Origin

  • Part III: The Gyre of Complexity

  • Chapter 8: The Expansion of Life

  • Chapter 9: The Tangled Bank

  • Chapter 10: From Egg to Organism

  • Chapter 11: The Outer Banks of Order

  • Epilogue: Comprehensive, but Complex and Perplexing

  • Glossary

  • Notes

  • References

  • Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Philosophie
Jahrhundert: Antike
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9780197604540
ISBN-10: 0197604544
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Harold, Franklin M.
Hersteller: Oxford University Press Inc
Maße: 239 x 159 x 26 mm
Von/Mit: Franklin M. Harold
Erscheinungsdatum: 14.04.2022
Gewicht: 0,458 kg
Artikel-ID: 120412371
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