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What is life? : the next fifty years : speculations on the future of biology
- Title
- What is life? : the next fifty years : speculations on the future of biology / edited by Michael P. Murphy, Luke A.J. O'Neill.
- Publication
- Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995.
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- Description
- xi, 191 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Note
- Contains most of the contributions presented at a conference held at Trinity College, Dublin, from Sept. 20-22, 1993.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 1. What is Life? The next fifty years. An introduction / Michael P. Murphy and Luke A. J. O'Neill -- 2. What will endure of 20th 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 or a dinosaur? / Lewis Wolpert -- 6. Language and life / John Maynard Smith and Eors Szathmary -- 7. RNA without protein or protein without RNA? / Christian De Duve -- 8. 'What is life?': was Schrodinger right? / Stuart A. Kauffman -- 9. Why new physics is needed to understand 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 Hermann Haken -- 12. Order from disorder: the thermodynamics of complexity in biology / Eric D. Schneider and James J. Kay -- 13. Reminiscences / Ruth Braunizer.
- ISBN
- 052145509X
- LCCN
- 94049438
- OCLC
- 31972283
- ocm31972283
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries