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What is Life?

Paperback • 2016 • 1. edition

What is Life?

By Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) Pross Addy (Professor of Chemistry Department of Chemistry

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About the book

Seventy years ago, Erwin Schroedinger 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 field...Show more

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9780198784791

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Oxford University Press

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2016

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What is Life?

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