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Michael P. Murphy, Luke A. J. O'Neill, eds.
What Is Life? The Next Fifty Years: speculations on the future of biology.
CUP. 1995

Contents

• What is Life? The next fifty years. An introduction. 1995
• Manfred Eigen. What will endure of 20th century biology?. 1995
• Stephen Jay Gould. 'What is life?' as a problem in history. 1995
• Jared Diamond. The evolution of human inventiveness. 1995
• Lewis Wolpert. Development: is the egg computable or could we generate an angel or a dinosaur?. 1995
• John Maynard Smith, Eors Szathmary. Language and life. 1995
• Christian de Duve. RNA without protein or protein without RNA?. 1995
• Stuart A. Kauffman. 'What is life?': was Schrodinger right?. 1995
• Roger Penrose. Why new physics is needed to understand the mind. 1995
• Walter Thirring. Do the laws of Nature evolve?. 1995
• J. A. Scott Kelso, Hermann Haken. New laws to be expected in the organism: synergetics of brain and behaviour. 1995
• Eric D. Schneider, James J. Kay. Order from disorder: the thermodynamics of complexity in biology. 1995
• Ruth Braunizer. Reminiscences. 1995