Life beyond molecules and genes : how our adaptations make us alive / Stephen Rothman.
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TextPublication details: West Conshohocken, Pa. : Templeton Press, ©2009.Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 222 pages)Content type: - text
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- 9781599473659
- 1599473658
- 1283265001
- 9781283265003
- 9786613265005
- 6613265004
- 578.4 22
- QH546 .R68 2009eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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?
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