What Is Life?: How Chemistry Becomes Biology (Hardcover)

from bness2

After spending the first few chapters outlining the major obstacles to developing a theory of abiogenesis, Pross then proceeds to lay out his proposed solution to the problem. I found his analysis of the intractable problems of abiogenesis to be insightful and spot on with what I know from my oth...

from stellarexplorer

We lack an adequate theory of what life is, and therefore cannot give adequate answers to fundamental questions in biology. What are the principles at work in abiogenesis, the emergence of life from inanimate chemical building blocks? What principles guide life's arrant defiance of the Second Law...

from stellarexplorer

We lack an adequate theory of what life is, and therefore cannot give adequate answers to fundamental questions in biology. What are the principles at work in abiogenesis, the emergence of life from inanimate chemical building blocks? What principles guide life's arrant defiance of the Second Law...