How Life Emerges from Inanimate Matter : From Atoms to a Living Individual.: From Atoms to a Living Individual. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Names: Korzeniewski, Bernard
• Contents: Intro -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Structure in physics and chemistry -- Structure in organic chemistry, biochemistry, and biology -- Structure in astronomy -- Structure in various scales-summary -- Structure of living individual vs. structure of literary work -- Do elementary particles of matter exist at all? -- Reference to the next chapter -- Chapter 2 -- Introduction -- Overview of the thermodynamic basis of life -- Essentials of thermodynamics as a statistical science -- The thermodynamics of physical systems -- The thermodynamics of chemical systems One more example -- Thermodynamics, arrow and flow of time, irreversibility, entropy, orderliness, information, the complexity of structure -- Thermodynamics in cosmology and astronomy -- Dissipative structures -- Dissipative structures on the earth's surface andthermodynamic-energetic fundaments of life -- Chapter 3 -- Attributes of life -- Could life originate spontaneously? -- The origin and evolution of the earth and the earth's crust -- Abiogenic synthesis of organic compounds -- Where and how did life originate? -- The genetic aspect of the origin of life The structural-individual aspect of the origin of life -- The energetic-thermodynamic aspect of the origin of life -- The enzymatic aspect of the origin of life -- Transduction and processing of informationin living organisms -- The common ancestry of known life -- Reference to the next chapters -- Three "trunks of life" -- Chapter 4 -- Introduction -- The selfish gene -- Kin altruism/kin selection -- Reciprocal altruism -- The good of the species and the Gaia hypothesis -- Artificial selection -- Sexual selection -- Reasons for the existence of the sexes -- Speciation and isolation Genetic drift/the founder effect -- The limitations of natural selection -- Chapter 5 -- The purposefulness of living individuals -- General evolution rules -- Evo-devo, that is, morphogenesis vs. evolution -- Fundamental events in the evolution of structure -- First multiply, then differentiate -- Symbiosis-the exchange of services -- Some more rules... -- Structure makes structure -- On cladistic taxonomy -- Chapter 6 -- Introduction -- How should a definition of life look? -- Features of terrestrial life vs. featuresof inanimate systems -- Cybernetic definition of the living individual Cybernetic living individual and biologically purposeful information -- Testing the cybernetic definition of the living individual -- Confrontation of the cybernetic definition of theliving individual with the real world -- Chapter 7 -- A cybernetic model of the psychical individual -- Formal similarities between the biological individualand the psychical individual -- Does complexity exist objectively? -- On the essence of physical reality -- Chapter 8 -- Supplement 1 -- Supplement 2 -- Natural life based on molecular elements/machines
• Publisher Details: Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 571.4; Biophysics
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781527519817; 1527519813
• Related ISBNs: 9781527519800; 1527519805
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