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Origins of Life

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Cambridge University Press, 1984 - LIFE - 30 pages
  

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Review: Origins of Life

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To be fair, I speed-read this while waiting for -someone- to finish browsing the book store...but really fascinating stuff. I like the procedural way in which Dyson approaches origins of life. He ...

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User Review  - Bob Nichols - Goodreads

Dyson states that Schrodinger's "What is Life" (1944) assumes that life's essence is replication and that metabolism was secondary. In this book, Dyson speculates that metabolism came first and was ... Read full review

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Contents

CHAPTER ONE Illustrious Predecessors
1
CHAPTER TWO Experiments and Theories
22
CHAPTER THREE A Toy Model
48
CHAPTER FOUR Open Questions
72

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