Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology, McFadden Johnjoe, Al-Khalili Jim

Автор: Johnjoe McFadden
Название: Quantum Evolution : Life in the Multiverse
ISBN: 0006551289 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780006551287
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Цена: 1979.00 р.
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Описание: How did life start? How did something capable of replicating itself emerge from the primordial soup? How did it defy the odds? And how did it carry on seeking out the very mutations that enable survival? Living organisms are controlled by a single molecule - DNA. Yet the study of physics tells us that the behaviour of single molecules is also controlled by the laws of quantum mechanics. The implications of this for biology have not been fully thought through. Until now. In this debut, Johnjoe McFadden puts forward a theory of quantum evolution. He shows how living organisms have the ability to will themselves into action. Indeed, such an ability may be life's most fundamental attribute. This has radical implications. Evolution may not be random at all, as recent evolutionary theories have taught: rather, cells may, in certain circumstances, be able to choose to mutate particular genes that provide an advantage in the environment in which the cell finds itself.