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Author: Addy Pross
Edition: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0199641013

What is Life?: How Chemistry becomes Biology

In his famous 1944 text "What is Life?" Erwin SchrAdinger pointed out how strange living systems appeared to be when viewed from a strictly physical standpoint. Download What is Life?: How Chemistry becomes Biology from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. All living systems are highly organized and the emergence of these organized systems would seem to contradict the most basic tenets of physics and chemistry, which say that systems tend toward chaos and disorder. What is even more remarkable is that despite dramatic developments in molecular biology in the half century since SchrAdinger's remarks, we still don't understand what life is or how it relates to the inanimate world.

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