The Demon in the Machine [electronic resource] : How Hidden Webs of Information Are Finally Solving the Mystery of Life
Paul Davies2019
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'A gripping new drama in science ... if you want to understand how the concept
of life is changing, read this' Professor Andrew Briggs, University of Oxford
When Darwin set out to explain the origin of species, he made no attempt to
answer the deeper question: what is life?
For generations, scientists have struggled to make sense of this fundamental
question. Life really does look like magic: even a humble bacterium accomplishes
things so dazzling that no human engineer can match it. And yet, huge advances
in molecular biology over the past few decades have served only to deepen the
mystery. So can life be explained by known physics and chemistry, or do we need
something fundamentally new?
In this penetrating and wide-ranging new analysis, world-renowned physicist and
science communicator Paul Davies searches for answers in a field so new and
fast-moving that it lacks a name, a domain where computing, chemistry, quantum
physics and nanotechnology intersect. At the he...
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Author:
Paul Davies, Author
Imprint:
United Kingdom : Penguin, 2019
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1 online resource (1 text file)
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Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9780241309605
Language:
English
BRN:
428966
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