What Is Life? the Next Fifty Years | Buch

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Beschreibung

A sequel to Edwin Schrodinger's book What Is Life?, this book presents the views of a number of outstanding scientists from a range of disciplines on the current main problems in biology. Contributors include Stephen Jay Gould, Stuart Kauffman, Jared Diamond, and Lewis Wolpert. 6 illustrations.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. What is life? The next fifty years: an introduction Michael P. Murphy and Luke A. J. O'Neill; 2. What will endure of twentieth-century biology? Manfred Eigen; 3. What is Life? as a problem in history Stephen Jay Gould; 4. The evolution of human inventiveness Jared Diamond; 5. Development: is the egg computable or could we generate an angel? Lewis Wolpert; 6. Language and life John Maynard Smith and Eörs Szthmáry; 7. RNA without protein or protein without RNA? Christian de Duve; 8. What is life?: Was Schrödinger right? Stuart A. Kauffman; 9. Why do we need a new physics of the mind? Roger Penrose; 10. Do the laws of nature evolve? Walter Thirring; 11. New laws to be expected in the organism: synergetics of brain and behaviour,J. A. Scott Kelso and Herman Haken; 12. Order from disorder: the thermodynamics of complexity in biology Eric D. Schneider and James J. Kay; 13. Reminiscences Ruth Braunizer.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2004
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Biologie , Importe
Rubrik:	Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Buch
ISBN-13:	9780521455091
ISBN-10:	052145509X
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Redaktion:	Murphy, Michael P. O'Neil, Luke A. O'Neill, Luke
Hersteller:	Cambridge University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	235 x 157 x 17 mm
Von/Mit:	Michael P. Murphy (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	26.05.2004
Gewicht:	0,489 kg