عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
(Number (ISBN
0307986810
(Number (ISBN
9780307986818
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Number
b426086
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Life on the edge :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
the coming of age of quantum biology /
First Statement of Responsibility
Johnjoe McFadden and Jim Al-Khalili
EDITION STATEMENT
Edition Statement
First edition.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xi, 353 pages :
Other Physical Details
illustrations, maps ;
Dimensions
25 cm
GENERAL NOTES
Text of Note
"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.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographic references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
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.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
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.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Biochemistry.
Biology.
Physics.
Quantum biochemistry.
Quantum theory.
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
Number
572
Edition
23
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
McFadden, Johnjoe
PERSONAL NAME - ALTERNATIVE RESPONSIBILITY
Al-Khalili, Jim,1962-
ORIGINATING SOURCE
Date of Transaction
20150824025327.0
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ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Electronic name
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