Code Biology A New Science of Life
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Sprache:Englisch
Fr. 202.00
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
06.10.2016
Abbildungen
XXI, 2 illus., schwarz-weiss Illustrationen
Verlag
SpringerSeitenzahl
224
Maße (L/B/H)
23.5/15.5/1.4 cm
Gewicht
387 g
Auflage
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2015
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-3-319-36637-1
This book is the study of all codes of life with the standard methods of science. The genetic code and the codes of culture have been known for a long time and represent the historical foundation of this book. What is really new in this field is the study of all codes that came after the genetic code and before the codes of culture. The existence of these organic codes, however, is not only a major experimental fact. It is one of those facts that have extraordinary theoretical implications. The first is that most events of macroevolution were associated with the origin of new organic codes, and this gives us a completely new reconstruction of the history of life. The second implication is that codes involve meaning and we need therefore to introduce in biology not only the concept of information but also the concept of biological meaning. The third theoretical implication comes from the fact that the organic codes have been highly conserved in evolution, which means that they are the greatest invariants of life. The study of the organic codes, in short, is bringing to light new mechanisms that have operated in the history of life and new fundamental concepts in biology.
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