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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