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What is life? : how chemistry becomes biology / Addy Pross.

By: Pross, Addy, 1945-.
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012Edition: 1st ed.Description: xiv, 200 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9780199641017.Subject(s): Life (Biology) -- Philosophy | Biology -- Philosophy | Life -- Origin | Chemistry -- Philosophy | Vital forceGenre/Form: Print books.
Contents:
Livings things are so very strange -- The quest for a theory of life -- Understanding 'understanding' -- Stability and instability -- The knotty origin of life problem -- Biology's crisis of identity -- Biology is chemistry -- What is life?
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-197) and index.

Livings things are so very strange -- The quest for a theory of life -- Understanding 'understanding' -- Stability and instability -- The knotty origin of life problem -- Biology's crisis of identity -- Biology is chemistry -- What is life?

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