P. Murphy / A. J. O'Neill (eds.)

What Is Life? the Next Fifty Years

Speculations on the Future of Biology
Herausgeber: Murphy, Michael P.; O'Neill, Luke A. J.

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Produktbeschreibung

At Trinity College, Dublin, a number of outstanding scientists from a range of disciplines gathered to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Erwin Schrodinger's book WHAT IS LIFE? Following Schrodinger's example of 50 years ago, members of the group present their views on the current central problems in biology. A revealing work that takes readers to the cutting-edge of current biological issues.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 339g
• ISBN-13: 9780521599399
• ISBN-10: 0521599393
• Artikelnr.: 21720297

Inhaltsangabe

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.