John S. Torday

Quantum Mechanics, Cell-Cell Signaling, and Evolution

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Produktbeschreibung

Quantum Mechanics, Cell-Cell Signaling, and Evolution offers a detailed accounting of the latest research and theorizing on the integration of quantum physics with biological action to produce a novel perspective on evolution. The book advocates for a paradigm shift towards understanding biology and medicine causally as predictive sciences, presenting quantum mechanics and physiology as vertically integrated. The author has taken a unique approach to the question of how and why evolution occurred. The account is based on extensive knowledge of lipid physical chemistry, and its role in the evolution of the lung under the influence of hormonal effects on structure and function.

The title arranges lipid biochemistry and biophysics into an integrated explanation, guiding readers from the immersion of lipids in water as the origin of life, to lung surfactant in alveolar homeostasis, and leading to a new understanding of how consciousness interacts with the laws of nature.This volume argues for a novel understanding of evolutionary processes based on fundamental science and positions itself as seeking consilience among research disciplines. Starting from the origins of the cosmos, the author proceeds through nucleosynthesis and Endosymbiosis Theory, to finally describe consciousness in relation to natural law.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Academic Press / Elsevier Science & Technology
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: C2021-1-00830-6
• Seitenzahl: 178
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 151mm x 227mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 290g
• ISBN-13: 9780323912976
• ISBN-10: 0323912974
• Artikelnr.: 64140075

Autorenporträt

John S. Torday is Professor of Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Evolutionary Medicine, at the University of California- Los Angeles, USA. He has published over 200 papers on lung biology, and over the course of the last 20 years, more than 100 peer-reviewed articles regarding the evolution of physiology based on cellular-molecular principles of development and phylogeny, by exploiting cell-cell signalling as the underlying mechanism. In addition, he has authored or co-authored six books on this topic that are unique to the literature on biology, medicine, cell biology, developmental biology and pathophysiology. He has taken a unique approach to the question of how and why evolution has occurred based on extensive knowledge of lipid physical chemistry, having studied its role in lung evolution under the influence of hormonal effects on structure and function developmentally, physiologically and pathologically.

Inhaltsangabe

1. E=mc2, a Game Changer
2. Nucleosynthesis and the 'logic' of Matter
3. Endosymbiosis as the Fundament for the Continuum from inanimate to animate
4. "Life is that Which can Mix Oil and Water"- Robert Frost
5. First There were Bacteria, Now There is New York- Simon Conway Morris
6. The Periodic Table, an Algorithm for the Synchronic, Diachronic and Qbits
7. The Homology between the Atom and The Cell as Quantum Mechanics
8. The Quantum Mechanical Basis for Physiology
9. Enfolding and Unfolding as the Basis for Niche Construction
10. The Network of Nature, or Consciousness, as the Software of the Cosmos