What is Life?: How Chemistry Becomes Biology (Oxford Landmark

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What is Life?: How Chemistry Becomes Biology (Oxford Landmark Science)

Seventy years ago, Erwin SchrÃ¶dinger posed a profound question: 'What is life, and how did it emerge from non-life?' This problem has puzzled biologists and physical scientists 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? 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 molecules results in a tendency for 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, well-defined chemical concept: the whole story from replicating molecules to complex life is one continuous process governed by an underlying
physical principle. The gulf between biology and the physical sciences is finally becoming bridged.

This new edition includes an Epilogue describing developments in the concepts of fundamental forms of stability discussed in the book, and their profound implications.

Oxford Landmark Science books are 'must-read' classics of modern science writing which have crystallized big ideas, and shaped the way we think.

Country	USA
Author	Addy Pross
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	1
EISBN	9780191650895
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	OUP Oxford
Manufacturer	OUP Oxford
NumberOfPages	208
PublicationDate	2012-09-27
Publisher	OUP Oxford
ReleaseDate	2012-09-27
Studio	OUP Oxford

What is Life?: How Chemistry Becomes Biology (Oxford Landmark Science)

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