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What is life? : the next fifty years : speculations on the future of biology / edited by Michael P. Murphy, Luke A.J. O'Neill.

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  • ISBN: 052145509X (hardback)
  • ISBN: 9780521455091 (hardback)
  • Physical Description: xi, 191 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: Cambridge ; Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Contains most of the contributions presented at a conference held at Trinity College, Dublin, from Sept. 20-22, 1993.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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.
Subject:
Biology > Philosophy > Congresses.
Biology > Congresses.
Life (Biology) > Congresses.
Schrödinger, Erwin, 1887-1961. What is life? > Congresses.
Biologie.
Filosofie.
Leven.

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