| Description |
xi, 191 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Contains most of the contributions presented at a conference held at Trinity College, Dublin, from Sept. 20-22, 1993. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
What is life? The next fifty years. An introduction / Michael P. Murphy and Luke A.J. O'Neill -- What will endure of 20th century biology? / Manfred Eigen -- "What is life?" as a problem in history / Stephen Jay Gould -- The evolution of human inventiveness / Jared Diamond -- Development: is the egg computable or could we generate an angel or a dinosaur? / Lewis Wolpert -- Language and life / John Maynard Smith and Eörs Szathmáry -- RNA without protein or protein without RNA? / Christian de Duve -- "What is life?": was Schrödinger right? / Stuart A. Kauffman -- Why new physics is needed to understand the mind / Roger Penrose -- Do the laws of nature evolve? / Walter Thirring -- New laws to be expected in the organism: synergetics of brain and behaviour / J.A. Scott Kelso and Hermann Haken -- Order from disorder: the thermodynamics of complexity in biology / Eric D. Schneider and James J. Kay -- Reminiscences / Ruth Braunizer. |
| Subject |
Biology -- Philosophy -- Congresses.
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Biology -- Congresses.
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Life (Biology) -- Congresses.
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Schrödinger, Erwin, 1887-1961. What is life? -- Congresses.
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| Indexed Term |
Biology Philosophy |
| Added Author |
Murphy, Michael P. (Michael Patrick), 1963-
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O'Neill, Luke A. J.
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| ISBN |
052145509X hardback |
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