What is life?: how chemistry becomes biology

Oxford: Oxford University Press (2012)
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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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