Life beyond molecules and genes how our adaptations make us alive /
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| Ngôn ngữ: | Tiếng Anh |
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West Conshohocken, Pa. :
Templeton Press,
c2009.
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Mục lục:
- Introduction : what is it that makes an object alive?
- Life forces and vital substances : the path from vitalism to materialism
- The material causes of life : the modern perspective
- Coming into being : the origin of aliveness
- A more refined understanding : a modern view of what is necessary for life
- A sufficient property of life : a search for the properties that attest to our being alive
- Dr. Bernard's adaptations : the internal adaptations of life and their critical role in understanding life's nature
- The physical world intrudes : how the physical world shapes our adaptive properties and us
- Adaptations as life : adaptations as the sufficient, lifegiving properties
- Spandrels and other irrelevancies: are there sufficient properties of life that are not adaptations?
- Life as complexity : the nature of biological complexity
- Harmony : the concordance of life and its science
- Conclusion : is there life beyond the genome?