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060 00 $a2015 J-417
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100 1 $aMcFadden, Johnjoe,$eauthor.
245 10 $aLife on the edge :$bthe coming of age of quantum biology /$cJohnjoe McFadden and Jim Al-Khalili.
250 $aFirst edition.
264 1 $aNew York :$bCrown Publishers,$c[2014]
264 4 $c©2014
300 $axi, 353 pages :$billustrations, map ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction -- 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.
520 $aLife 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.
650 0 $aQuantum biochemistry.
650 0 $aBiology.
650 0 $aLife cycles (Biology)
650 12 $aQuantum Theory.
650 22 $aBiology.
650 22 $aLife.
650 22 $aBiophysical Phenomena.
650 22 $aBiological Phenomena.
650 4 $aBiology.
650 4 $aBiochemistry.
650 4 $aPhysics.
650 4 $aQuantum theory.
650 7 $aBiochemistry.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00831961
650 7 $aBiology.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00832383
650 7 $aPhysics.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01063025
650 7 $aQuantum biochemistry.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01085083
650 7 $aQuantum theory.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01085128
700 1 $aAl-Khalili, Jim,$d1962-$eauthor.
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