The gene's eye view of life, proposed in Richard Dawkins acclaimed
bestseller The Selfish Gene, sees living bodies as mere vehicles
for the replication of genetic codes. But in The Music of Life,
world renowned physiologist Denis Noble argues that, to truly
understand life, we must look beyond the "selfish gene" to consider
life on a much wider variety of levels.
Life, Noble asserts, is a kind of music, a symphonic interplay
between genes, cells, organs, body, and environment. He weaves this
musical metaphor throughout this personal and deeply lyrical work,
illuminating ideas that might otherwise be daunting to
non-scientists. In elegant prose, Noble sets out a cutting-edge
alternative to the gene's eye view, offering a radical switch of
perception in which genes are seen as prisoners and the organism
itself is a complex system of many interacting levels. In his more
expansive view, life emerges as a process, the ebb and flow of
activity in an intricate web of connections. He introduces readers
to the realm of systems biology, a field that has been growing in
strength in the past decade. Noble, himself one of the founders of
this field, argues modern systems biology may be the view we need
to adopt to gain a deeper understanding of the nature of
life.
Drawing on his experiences in his research on the heartbeat, and
on evolutionary biology, development, medicine, philosophy,
linguistics, and Chinese culture, Noble presents us with a profound
and very modern reflection on the nature of life.
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