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Domestic animals --- Origin. --- Origin
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Addressing the emergence of life from a systems biology perspective, this new edition has undergone extensive revision, reflecting changes in scientific understanding and evolution of thought on the question 'what is life?'. With an emphasis on the philosophical aspects of science, including the epistemic features of modern synthetic biology, and also providing an updated view of the autopoiesis/cognition theory, the book gives an exhaustive treatment of the biophysical properties of vesicles, seen as the beginning of the 'road map' to the minimal cell - a road map which will develop into the question of whether and to what extent synthetic biology will be capable of making minimal life in the laboratory. Fully illustrated, accessibly written, directly challenging the reader with provocative questions, offering suggestions for research proposals, and including dialogues with contemporary authors such as Humberto Maturana, Albert Eschenmoser and Harold Morowitz, this is an ideal resource for researchers and students across fields including bioengineering, evolutionary biology, molecular biology, chemistry and chemical engineering.
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"The purpose of this book is to present in coherent order sufficient facts regarding material biological phenomena to show that life is dominated by catalysis--the direction of chemical change by surface areas of specific structure and efficiency. Catalysts not only direct the chemical changes essential to life, but some of these catalysts actually are the ultimate living units. Since matter is the physical basis of life, its successive structural levels are first considered, and then the ways in which atoms and molecules aggregate into masses, and the consequences of the intermixture of substances, even though some are present in mere traces. The nature of living units is next discussed, together with the catalytic mechanism whereby life exists, persists, and proceeds. Immunology, genetics, embryology, diseases and drugs and evolution are then reviewed, and some speculations as to the origin of life are outlined. Since the mental and spiritual aspects of life are quite as real as the material, the last chapter deals with the equally real interrelation between them, even though its basis is unknown. Each chapter should be considered as part of the whole general picture of life presented, rather than as a separate, isolated entity. Each topic is treated in as simple and elementary a manner as justice to the facts of nature will permit"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved).
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Die hier versammelten Aufsätze von Jörg Frey zielen auf die theologische Interpretation neutestamentlicher Texte in ihrem historischen Kontext. Der Band enthält Studien zur Verkündigung Jesu und Deutung seines Todes, zum Hintergrund und zur Theologie des Paulus sowie zu Fragen der neutestamentlichen Theologie, Ekklesiologie und Eschatologie.
Christianity --- Origin.
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The origin of life was an event probably unique in the Earth's history, and reconstructing this event is like assembling a puzzle made up of many pieces. These pieces are composed of information acquired from many different disciplines. The aim of this 1999 book is to integrate discoveries in astronomy, planetology, palaeontology, biology and chemistry, and use this knowledge to present plausible scenarios that give us a better understanding of the likely origin of life on Earth. Twenty-three top experts contribute chapters that discuss everything from the environment and atmosphere of the early Earth, through the appearance of organic molecules in the prebiotic environment, to primitive chiral chemical systems capable of self-replication and evolution by mutation. The book also discusses various clues to the origin of life that can be obtained by a study of the past and present microbial world, as well as from Saturn's moon Titan and the planet Mars. Chemists, biologists, earth scientists, and astronomers will find this book a thought-provoking summary of our knowledge of this extraordinary event.
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