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What is Life?: How Chemistry Becomes Biology

Paperback • 2014 • English

What is Life?: How Chemistry Becomes Biology

By Addy Pross

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About the book

Seventy years ago, Erwin Schrodinger posed a profound question: 'What is life, and how did it emerge from non-life?' This problem has puzzled biologists and physical scientists ever since. Living things are hugely complex and have unique properties, such as self-maintenance and apparently purposeful behaviour which we do not see in inert matter. So how does chemistry give rise to biology? What could have led the first replicating molecules up such a path? Now, developments in the emerging fie...Show more

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9780199687770

Published year

2014

Language

English

Original title

What is Life?: How Chemistry Becomes Biology

Format

Paperback

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