What is life? : the next fifty years : speculations on the future of biology /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Murphy, Michael P. (Michael Patrick), 1963-, O'Neill, Luke A. J.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Subjects:	Biology > Philosophy > Congresses. Biology > Congresses. Life (Biology) > Congresses. Schrödinger, Erwin, > 1887-1961. > What is life? > Congresses.

Table of 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.