Dan W. Urry

What Sustains Life?

Consilient Mechanisms for Protein-Based Machines and Materials

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book brings together three decades worth of collaborative research to address the question "What sustains life?" In part a scientific response to Schroedinger's work "What is Life?" Urry's text contains elements of memoir, history, and a solid, informative scientific core that will interest both the general reader, student, and professional researcher.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer, Basel
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 10962688
• 2006
• Seitenzahl: 652
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 45mm
• Gewicht: 1910g
• ISBN-13: 9780817643461
• ISBN-10: 081764346X
• Artikelnr.: 14731923

Autorenporträt

Dan W. Urry, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN, USA

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue.- 1. Introduction.- 2. What Sustains Life? An Overview.- 3. The Pilgrimage.- 4. Likelihood of Life's Protein Machines.- 5. Consilient Mechanisms for Diverse Protein-Based Machines.- 6. On the Evolution of Protein-Based Machines.- 7. Biology Thrives Near a Movable Cusp of Insolubility.- 8. Consilient Mechanisms for the Protein-Based Machines of Biology.- 9. Advanced Materials For the Future.- Epilogue: The Enigma of Living Organisms Fades.