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Biological Information: New Perspectives - Proceedings Of The Symposium (Hardcover)
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Biological Information: New Perspectives - Proceedings Of The Symposium (Hardcover)
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In the spring of 2011, a diverse group of scientists gathered at
Cornell University to discuss their research into the nature and
origin of biological information. This symposium brought together
experts in information theory, computer science, numerical
simulation, thermodynamics, evolutionary theory, whole organism
biology, developmental biology, molecular biology, genetics,
physics, biophysics, mathematics, and linguistics. This volume
presents new research by those invited to speak at the conference.
The contributors to this volume use their wide-ranging expertise in
the area of biological information to bring fresh insights into the
many explanatory difficulties associated with biological
information. These authors raise major challenges to the
conventional scientific wisdom, which attempts to explain all
biological information exclusively in terms of the standard
mutation/selection paradigm. Several clear themes emerged from
these research papers: 1) Information is indispensable to our
understanding of what life is; 2) Biological information is more
than the material structures that embody it; 3) Conventional
chemical and evolutionary mechanisms seem insufficient to fully
explain the labyrinth of information that is life. By exploring new
perspectives on biological information, this volume seeks to
expand, encourage, and enrich research into the nature and origin
of biological information.
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