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Life evolving : molecules, mind, and meaning

Title
Life evolving : molecules, mind, and meaning / Christian de Duve.
Author
De Duve, Christian.
Publication
New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.

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Description
xv, 341 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index..
Contents
1. What Is Life? Chemistry -- 2. What Is Life? Information -- 3. Where Does Life Come From? -- 4. How Did Life Arise? The Way of RNA -- 5. How Did Life Arise? From RNA to Protein-DNA -- 6. How Did Life Arise? The Birth of Cells -- 7. The History of Life -- 8. The Invisible World of Bacteria -- 9. The Mysterious Birth of Eukaryotes: The Problem -- 10. The Mysterious Birth of Eukaryotes: A Possible Pathway -- 11. The Visible Revolution -- 12. The Arrow of Evolution -- 13. Becoming Human -- 14. The Riddle of the Brain -- 15. Reshaping Life -- 16. After Us, What? -- 17. Are We Alone? -- 18. How About God in All That?
ISBN
0195156056 (cloth)
LCCN
2002029014
OCLC
  • 52265982
  • ocm52265982
  • SCSB-4308966
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries