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What is Life? traces the historic question posed by Erwin Schrodinger and presents the current understanding that chemistry can account for the emergence of life’s unique properties such as self-maintenance and purposeful behavior. Pross explains how developments in systems chemistry reveal a special form of chemical stability among replicating entities, leading to greater complexity and the appearance of life‑like characteristics. He argues that Darwinian evolution is not a separate biological phenomenon but the biological expression of a deeper, chemically defined principle that unites biology and the physical sciences.
First publish date: 2012
Genre: Science/Chemistry
Authors: Addy Pross
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