Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1 What is Life? The next fifty years. An introduction
- 2 What will endure of 20th century biology?
- 3 ‘What is life?’ as a problem in history
- 4 The evolution of human inventiveness
- 5 Development: is the egg computable or could we generate an angel or a dinosaur?
- 6 Language and life
- 7 RNA without protein or protein without RNA?
- 8 ‘What is life?’: was Schrödinger right?
- 9 Why new physics is needed to understand the mind
- 10 Do the laws of Nature evolve?
- 11 New laws to be expected in the organism: synergetics of brain and behaviour
- 12 Order from disorder: the thermodynamics of complexity in biology
- 13 Reminiscences
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 February 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1 What is Life? The next fifty years. An introduction
- 2 What will endure of 20th century biology?
- 3 ‘What is life?’ as a problem in history
- 4 The evolution of human inventiveness
- 5 Development: is the egg computable or could we generate an angel or a dinosaur?
- 6 Language and life
- 7 RNA without protein or protein without RNA?
- 8 ‘What is life?’: was Schrödinger right?
- 9 Why new physics is needed to understand the mind
- 10 Do the laws of Nature evolve?
- 11 New laws to be expected in the organism: synergetics of brain and behaviour
- 12 Order from disorder: the thermodynamics of complexity in biology
- 13 Reminiscences
- Index
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- What is Life? The Next Fifty YearsSpeculations on the Future of Biology, pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1995