What is life?
Subtitle: the next fifty years : speculations on the future of biology
By: edited by Michael P. Murphy, Luke A.J. O'Neill.
Contributors: Murphy, Michael P. 1963-; O'Neill, Luke A. J.
Edition: 1st pbk. ed.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
Subjects: Schrödinger, Erwin, -- 1887-1961. -- Congresses; Biology -- Philosophy -- Congresses; Biology -- Congresses; Life (Biology) -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Contains most of the contributions presented at a conference held at Trinity College, Dublin, from Sept. 20-22, 1993.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What is life? The next fifty years. An introduction / Michael P. Murphy and Luke A.J. O'Neill; title: What will endure of 20th century biology? / Manfred Eigen; title: "What is life?" as a problem in history / Stephen Jay Gould; title: The evolution of human inventiveness / Jared Diamond; title: Development: is the egg computable or could we generate an angel or a dinosaur? / Lewis Wolpert; title: Language and life / John Maynard Smith and Eörs Szathmáry; title: RNA without protein or protein without RNA? / Christian de Duve; title: "What is life?": was Schrödinger right? / Stuart A. Kauffman; title: Why new physics is needed to understand the mind / Roger Penrose; title: Do the laws of nature evolve? / Walter Thirring; title: New laws to be expected in the organism: synergetics of brain and behaviour / J.A. Scott Kelso and Hermann Haken; title: Order from disorder: the thermodynamics of complexity in biology / Eric D. Schneider and James J. Kay; title: Reminiscences / Ruth Braunizer.