Life Explained (Odile Jacob Series) - Hardcover

Morange, Michel

 
9780300137323: Life Explained (Odile Jacob Series)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 030013732X ISBN 13: 9780300137323
Verlag: Yale University Press, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

Fifty years ago Francis Crick and James D. Watson proposed the double helix model for the DNA molecule. They believed they had, as Crick put it, discovered the ?secret of life,” and many agreed. But in the intervening years, science has marched?sometimes leaped?forward, and now the question ?What is life?” must be posed once again.

In this accessible and fascinating book, Michel Morange draws on recent advances in molecular genetics, evolutionary biology, astrobiology, and other disciplines to find today’s answers to the question of life. He begins by discussing the various answers that have been formulated in the past, setting contemporary definitions of life within a rich philosophical and scientific tradition that reaches back to ancient Greece. Then, with impeccable logic and a wealth of appropriate detail, Morange proceeds to lay out the fundamental characteristics that define life. The road to an understanding of life remains incompletely charted, he concludes, but the nature of its final destination is no longer an enigma.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Michel Morange is professor of biology at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, where he directs the Centre Cavaillès for the History and Philosophy of Science. He is the author of The Misunderstood Gene and A History of Molecular Biology, and has published many articles in scientific journals. Matthew Cobb is senior lecturer in animal behavior at the University of Manchester. Malcolm DeBevoise has translated some thirty works from French in all branches of scholarship.

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Verlag
Yale University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2008
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
030013732X
ISBN 13 
9780300137323
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Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
205
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