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02499aam a2200385 i 4500 001 6048B68A4CDB11E7A75DCED3DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170609010334 008 160920s2016 enka b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2016462290 020 $a 0198784791 (Pbk) 020 $a 9780198784791 035 $a (OCoLC)948622573 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d AU@ $d YDXCP $d EQO $d IOC $d SILO 050 00 $a QH331 .P677 2016 100 1 $a Pross, Addy, $e author. 245 10 $a What is life? $b how chemistry becomes biology $c Andy Pross. 250 $a Second edition. 264 1 $a Oxford, United Kingdom $b Oxford University Press $c 2016 300 $a xiv, 208 pages $b illustration $c 20 cm. 490 1 $a Oxford Landmark Science. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-205) and index. 520 $a Seventy years ago, Erwin Schrodinger posed a simple, yet profound, question: 'What is life?'. How could the very existence of such extraordinary chemical systems be understood? This problem has puzzled biologists and physical scientists both before, and 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? Did life begin with replicating molecules, and, if so, what could have led the first replicating molecules up such a path? Now, developments in the emerging field of 'systems chemistry' are unlocking the problem. Addy Pross shows how the different kind of stability that operates among replicating entities results in a tendency for certain chemical systems to become more complex and acquire the properties of life. Strikingly, he demonstrates that Darwinian evolution is the biological expression of a deeper and more fundamental chemical principle: the whole story from replicating molecules to complex life is one continuous coherent chemical process governed by a simple definable principle. The gulf between biology and the physical sciences is finally becoming bridged. 650 0 $a Evolution of Life 650 0 $a Chemistry 650 0 $a Biology 650 0 $a Life (Biology) $x Philosophy 650 0 $a Biology $x Philosophy 650 0 $a Life $x Origin 650 0 $a Chemistry $x Philosophy 830 0 $a Oxford Landmark Science. 941 $a 1 952 $l URAX314 $d 20170609042043.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=6048B68A4CDB11E7A75DCED3DAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IOCInitiate Another SILO Locator Search