Vital dust : life as a cosmic imperative / Christian de Duve
- Bib ID:
- 2040061
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- De Duve, Christian
- Description:
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- New York : Basic Books, c1995
- xix, 362 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0465090443
- 0465090451 (paper)
- Full contents:
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- Introduction: The Unity of Life; The Tree of Life; The Antiquity of Life; The Cradle of Life; The Probability of Life; Foresight Excluded; The Ages of Life
- Pt. I. The Age of Chemistry. Ch. 1. The Search for Origins. Ch. 2. The First Catalysts of Life. Ch. 3. The Fuel of Emerging Life. Ch. 4. The Advent of RNA
- Pt. II. The Age of Information. Ch. 5. RNA Takes Over. Ch. 6. The Code. Ch. 7. Genes in the Making. Ch. 8. Freedoms and Constraints
- Pt. III. The Age of the Protocell. Ch. 9. Encapsulating Life. Ch. 10. Turning Membranes into Machines. Ch. 11. Adaptation to Life in Confinement. Ch. 12. The Ancestor of All Life. Ch. 13. The Universality of Life
- Pt. IV. The Age of the Single Cell. Ch. 14. Bacteria Conquer the World. Ch. 15. The Making of a Eukaryote. Ch. 16. The Primitive Phagocyte. Ch. 17. The Guests That Stayed
- Pt. V. The Age of Multicellular Organisms. Ch. 18. The Benefits of Cellular Collectivism. Ch. 19. The Greening of the Earth. Ch. 20. The First Animals.
- Ch. 21. Animals Fill the Oceans. Ch. 22. Animals Move Out of the Sea. Ch. 23. The Web of Life. Ch. 24. The Virtues of Junk DNA
- Pt. VI. The Age of the Mind. Ch. 25. The Step to Human. Ch. 26. The Brain. Ch. 27. The Workings of the Mind. Ch. 28. The Works of the Mind. Ch. 29. Values
- Pt. VII. The Age of the Unknown. Ch. 30. The Future of Life. Ch. 31. The Meaning of Life.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. [341]-350.
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