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- 2009006181 contributor B11399953.
- 2009006181 created "c2009.".
- 2009006181 date "2009".
- 2009006181 date "c2009.".
- 2009006181 dateCopyrighted "c2009.".
- 2009006181 description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- 2009006181 description "Introduction: what is it that makes an object alive? -- Life forces and vital substances: the path from vitalism to materialism -- The material causes of life: the modern perspective -- Coming into being: the origin of aliveness -- A more refined understanding: a modern view of what is necessary for life -- A sufficient property of life: a search for the properties that attest to our being alive -- Dr. Bernard's adaptations: the internal adaptations of life and their critical role in understanding life's nature -- The physical world intrudes: how the physical world shapes our adaptive properties and us -- Adaptations as life: adaptations as the sufficient, lifegiving properties -- Spandrels and other irrelevancies: are there sufficient properties of life that are not adaptations? -- Life as complexity: the nature of biological complexity -- Harmony: the concordance of life and its science -- Conclusion: is there life beyond the genome?.".
- 2009006181 extent "xvi, 222 p. ;".
- 2009006181 identifier "1599472503 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- 2009006181 identifier "9781599472508 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- 2009006181 issued "2009".
- 2009006181 issued "c2009.".
- 2009006181 language "eng".
- 2009006181 publisher "West Conshohocken, Pa. : Templeton Press,".
- 2009006181 subject "578.4 22".
- 2009006181 subject "Adaptation (Biology)".
- 2009006181 subject "Evolution (Biology)".
- 2009006181 subject "Life.".
- 2009006181 subject "QH546 .R68 2009".
- 2009006181 tableOfContents "Introduction: what is it that makes an object alive? -- Life forces and vital substances: the path from vitalism to materialism -- The material causes of life: the modern perspective -- Coming into being: the origin of aliveness -- A more refined understanding: a modern view of what is necessary for life -- A sufficient property of life: a search for the properties that attest to our being alive -- Dr. Bernard's adaptations: the internal adaptations of life and their critical role in understanding life's nature -- The physical world intrudes: how the physical world shapes our adaptive properties and us -- Adaptations as life: adaptations as the sufficient, lifegiving properties -- Spandrels and other irrelevancies: are there sufficient properties of life that are not adaptations? -- Life as complexity: the nature of biological complexity -- Harmony: the concordance of life and its science -- Conclusion: is there life beyond the genome?.".
- 2009006181 title "Life beyond molecules and genes : how our adaptations make us alive / Stephen Rothman.".
- 2009006181 type "text".