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Beginning with a new essay, "Levels of Life and Death," Tibor Gnti develops three general arguments about the nature of life. In "The Nature of the Living State," Professor Gnti answers Francis Crick's puzzles about "life itself," offering a set of reflections on the parameters of the problems to be solved in origins of life research and, more broadly, in the search for principles governing the living state in general. "The Principle of Life" describes in accessible language Gnti's chief insight about the organization of living systems-his theory of the "chemoton," or chemical automaton. The simplest chemoton model of the living state consists of three chemically coupled an autocatalytic metabolism, a genetic molecule and a membrane. Gnti offers a fresh approach to the ancient problem of "life criteria," articulating a basic philosophy of the units of life applicable to the deepest theoretical considerations of genetics, chemical synthesis, evolutionary biology and the requirements of an "exact theoretical biology." New essays by Ers Szathmry and James Griesemer on the biological and philosophical significance of Gnti's work of thirty years indicate not only the enduring theoretica

Author

Ganti, Tibor; Szathmary, Eors; Griesemer, James

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780198507260