What Is Life? the Next Fifty Years

Presents the views of eminent scientists on problems in biology.

Klappentext
At Trinity College, Dublin, a number of outstanding scientists from a range of disciplines gathered to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Erwin Schrodinger's book WHAT IS LIFE? Following Schrodinger's example of 50 years ago, members of the group present their views on the current central problems in biology. A revealing work that takes readers to the cutting-edge of current biological issues.

Zusammenfassung
Erwin Schroedinger's 1943 book What is Life? was tremendously influential on the development of molecular biology. The Next Fifty Years presents the views of eminent scientists on current problems in biology. This collection is essential reading for anyone interested in biology and its future.

Inhalt
1. What is life? The next fifty years: an introduction Michael P. Murphy and Luke A. J. O'Neill; 2. What will endure of twentieth-century biology? Manfred Eigen; 3. What is Life? as a problem in history Stephen Jay Gould; 4. The evolution of human inventiveness Jared Diamond; 5. Development: is the egg computable or could we generate an angel? Lewis Wolpert; 6. Language and life John Maynard Smith and Eörs Szthmáry; 7. RNA without protein or protein without RNA? Christian de Duve; 8. What is life?: Was Schrödinger right? Stuart A. Kauffman; 9. Why do we need a new physics of the mind? Roger Penrose; 10. Do the laws of nature evolve? Walter Thirring; 11. New laws to be expected in the organism: synergetics of brain and behaviour,J. A. Scott Kelso and Herman Haken; 12. Order from disorder: the thermodynamics of complexity in biology Eric D. Schneider and James J. Kay; 13. Reminiscences Ruth Braunizer.

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