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The Dual Nature of Life - Interplay of the Individual and the Genome (Paperback, 2012 ed.)
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The Dual Nature of Life - Interplay of the Individual and the Genome (Paperback, 2012 ed.)
Series: The Frontiers Collection
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Life is a diverse and ubiquitous phenomenon on Earth, characterized
by fundamental features distinguishing living bodies from nonliving
material. Yet it is also so complex that it has long defied precise
definition. This book from a seasoned biologist offers new insights
into the nature of life by illuminating a fascinating architecture
of dualities inherent in its existence and propagation. Life is
connected with individual living beings, yet it is also a
collective and inherently global phenomenon of the material world.
It embodies a dual existence of cycles of phenotypic life, and
their unseen driver - an uninterrupted march of genetic information
whose collective immortality is guaranteed by individual mortality.
Although evolution propagates and tunes species of organisms, the
beings produced can be regarded merely as tools for the survival
and cloning of genomes written in an unchanging code. What are the
physical versus informational bases and driving forces of life, and
how do they unite as an integrated system? What does time mean for
individuals, life on the global scale, and the underlying
information? This accessible examination of principles and evidence
shows that a network of dualities lies at the heart of biological
puzzles that have engaged the human mind for millennia.
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