What is life? : the next fifty years : speculations on the future of biology /
edited by Michael P. Murphy, Luke A.J. O'Neill.
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1995.
- xi, 191 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contains most of the contributions presented at a conference held at Trinity College, Dublin, from Sept. 20-22, 1993.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
What is Life? The next fifty years. An introduction / What will endure of 20th century biology? / 'What is life?' as a problem in history / The evolution of human inventiveness / Development: is the egg computable or could we generate an angel or a dinosaur? / Language and life / RNA without protein or protein without RNA? / 'What is life?': was Schrodinger right? / Why new physics is needed to understand the mind / Do the laws of Nature evolve? / New laws to be expected in the organism: synergetics of brain and behaviour / Order from disorder: the thermodynamics of complexity in biology / Reminiscences / Michael P. Murphy and Luke A. J. O'Neill -- Manfred Eigen -- Stephen Jay Gould -- Jared Diamond -- Lewis Wolpert -- John Maynard Smith and Eors Szathmary -- Christian De Duve -- Stuart A. Kauffman -- Roger Penrose -- Walter Thirring -- J. A. Scott Kelso and Hermann Haken -- Eric D. Schneider and James J. Kay -- Ruth Braunizer. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13.
052145509X
94049438
Schrödinger, Erwin, 1887-1961. What is life? --Congresses.
Biology--Philosophy--Congresses.
Biology--Congresses.
Life (Biology)--Congresses.
QH331 / .W465 1995
574/.01
Contains most of the contributions presented at a conference held at Trinity College, Dublin, from Sept. 20-22, 1993.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
What is Life? The next fifty years. An introduction / What will endure of 20th century biology? / 'What is life?' as a problem in history / The evolution of human inventiveness / Development: is the egg computable or could we generate an angel or a dinosaur? / Language and life / RNA without protein or protein without RNA? / 'What is life?': was Schrodinger right? / Why new physics is needed to understand the mind / Do the laws of Nature evolve? / New laws to be expected in the organism: synergetics of brain and behaviour / Order from disorder: the thermodynamics of complexity in biology / Reminiscences / Michael P. Murphy and Luke A. J. O'Neill -- Manfred Eigen -- Stephen Jay Gould -- Jared Diamond -- Lewis Wolpert -- John Maynard Smith and Eors Szathmary -- Christian De Duve -- Stuart A. Kauffman -- Roger Penrose -- Walter Thirring -- J. A. Scott Kelso and Hermann Haken -- Eric D. Schneider and James J. Kay -- Ruth Braunizer. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13.
052145509X
94049438
Schrödinger, Erwin, 1887-1961. What is life? --Congresses.
Biology--Philosophy--Congresses.
Biology--Congresses.
Life (Biology)--Congresses.
QH331 / .W465 1995
574/.01