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An edition of Life on the edge (2014)

Life on the edge

the coming of age of quantum biology

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Life is the most extraordinary phenomenon in the known universe; but how does it work? It is remarkable that in this age of cloning and even synthetic biology, nobody has ever made anything living entirely out of dead material. Life remains the only way to make life. Are we missing a vital ingredient in its creation? Like Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene which provided a new perspective on evolution by shifting the focus of natural selection from organisms to genes, Life On The Edge alters our understanding of life from cells or biomolecules to the fundamental particles that drive life's dynamics. From this new perspective, life makes more sense as its missing ingredient is revealed to be quantum mechanics and the strange phenomena that lie at the heart of this most mysterious of sciences.

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Crown Publishers
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Biochemistry, Quantum biochemistry, Biology, Physics, Quantum theory, Life cycles (Biology), nyt:science=2015-09-13, New York Times bestseller, Quantum Theory, Life, Biophysical Phenomena, Biological Phenomena

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Table of Contents

Introduction
What is life?
The engines of life
The quantum beat
Finding Nemo's home
The butterfly, the fruit fly and the quantum robin
Quantum genes
Mind
How life began
Quantum biology: life on the edge of a storm
Epilogue: quantum life.

Edition Notes

"Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain as Life on the Edge by Bantam Press, an imprint of Transworld Publishers, a division of Penguin Random House Ltd. in 2014."--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographic references and index.

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2014

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Dewey Decimal Class
572
Library of Congress
QP517.Q34 M34 2014, QP517.Q34 M34 2015

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Pagination
xi, 353 pages
Number of pages
353

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OL26884560M
Internet Archive
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ISBN 10
0307986810
ISBN 13
9780307986818
LCCN
2015018948
OCLC/WorldCat
898228299, 914329162

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