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What is life? What is life? Addy Pross Seventy years ago, Erwin Schrodinger posed a simple, yet profound, question: 'What is life?'. How could the very existence of such extraordinary chemical systems be understood? This problem has puzzl… OL20048650W
Philosophy of experimental biology Philosophy of experimental biology Marcel Weber Philosophy of Experimental Biology explores some central philosophical issues concerning scientific research in modern experimental biology, including genetics, biochemistry, molecular biology, devel… OL2120677W
What Makes Biology Unique? What Makes Biology Unique? Ernst Mayr A collection of revised, collected, and new essays written by Ernst Mayr in time for his 100th birthday. Mayr, the most eminent evolutionary biologist of the past century, explores biology as an auto… OL3341353W
Life's Solution Life's Solution Simon Conway Morris The assassin's bullet misses, the Archduke's carriage moves forward, and a catastrophic war is avoided. So too with the history of life. Re-run the tape of life, as Stephen J. Gould claimed, and the … OL8128801W