Life beyond molecules and genes
Subtitle: how our adaptations make us alive
By: Stephen Rothman.
Publisher: Templeton Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: West Conshohocken, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9781599472508
Subjects: Adaptation (Biology); Life; Evolution (Biology)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: what is it that makes an object alive?; title: Life forces and vital substances: the path from vitalism to materialism; title: The material causes of life: the modern perspective; title: Coming into being: the origin of aliveness; title: A more refined understanding: a modern view of what is necessary for life; title: A sufficient property of life: a search for the properties that attest to our being alive; title: Dr. Bernard's adaptations: the internal adaptations of life and their critical role in understanding life's nature; title: The physical world intrudes: how the physical world shapes our adaptive properties and us; title: Adaptations as life: adaptations as the sufficient, lifegiving properties; title: Spandrels and other irrelevancies: are there sufficient properties of life that are not adaptations?; title: Life as complexity: the nature of biological complexity; title: Harmony: the concordance of life and its science; title: Conclusion: is there life beyond the genome?.