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*Schrodinger E (1944-2000) ''What is Life?'' Cambridge University Press (Canto). ISBN 0-521-42708-8 [http://dieoff.org/page150.htm Chapter 6: Order, Disorder and Entropy] ''(Prediction of hereditary molecule like a coded periodic crystal — Watson claims inspiration — Stresses open thermodynamic systems key to life.)''
*Schrodinger E (1944-2000) ''What is Life?'' Cambridge University Press (Canto). ISBN 0-521-42708-8 [http://dieoff.org/page150.htm Chapter 6: Order, Disorder and Entropy] ''(Prediction of hereditary molecule like a coded periodic crystal — Watson claims inspiration — Stresses open thermodynamic systems key to life.)''

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A list of key readings about Life.

Books

  • Schrodinger E (1944-2000) What is Life? Cambridge University Press (Canto). ISBN 0-521-42708-8 Chapter 6: Order, Disorder and Entropy (Prediction of hereditary molecule like a coded periodic crystal — Watson claims inspiration — Stresses open thermodynamic systems key to life.)
  • Kaneko K (2006) Life: An Introduction to Complex Systems Biology. Springer, Berlin ISBN 3-540-32666-9
  • Dill KA, Bromberg S, Stigter D (2003) Molecular Driving Forces: Statistical Thermodynamics in Chemistry and Biology. Garland Science, New York. ISBN 0-8153-2051-5
  • Strogatz SH (2003) Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order. Theia, New York ISBN 0-7868-6844-9
  • Buchanan M (2002) Nexus: Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Science of Networks. W.W. Norton, New York ISBN 0-393-04153-0
  • Hoagland M, Dodson B, Hauck J (2001) Exploring the Way Life Works: The Science of Biology. Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc, Mississauga, Ontario ISBN 0-7637-1688-X (For young people. An illustrated text.)
  • Solé R, Goodwin B (2000) Signs of Life: How Complexity Pervades Biology. Basic Books, Perseus Books Group, New York ISBN 0-465-01928-5
  • Loewenstein WR (2000) The Touchstone of life: Molecular Information, Cell Communication, and the Foundations of Life. Oxford University Press ISBN 0-19-514057-5 Book Review and Chapter One
  • Hoagland M, Dodson B (1998) The Way Life Works: The Science Lovers Illustrated Guide to How Life Grows, Develops, Reproduces, and Gets Along. Three Rivers Press, New York ISBN 0-8129-2888-1 (For young people. An illustrated text.)
  • Margulis L, Sagan D (1995) What is Life? Simon & Schuster ISBN 0-684-81087-5


Articles

  • Epstein IR, Pojman JA, Steinbock O (2006) Introduction: Self-organization in nonequilibrium chemical systems. Chaos 16:037101 PMID 17014235
  • Hazen R (2006) The Big Questions: What is Life? New Scientist Issue 2578, 46-51
  • Marenduzzo D et al. (2006) Entropy-driven genome organization. Biophys J 90:3712-21 PMID 16500976
  • Morowitz H, Smith E (2006) Energy flow and the organization of life
  • Scheffer M, van Nes EH (2006) Self-organized similarity, the evolutionary emergence of groups of similar species. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 103:6230-5 PMID 16585519
  • Walsh DM (2006) Organisms as natural purposes: The contemporary evolutionary perspective. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 37:771-91 37:771-91
  • Park K et al. (2005) Self-organized scale-free networks. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys 72:026131 PMID 16196668
  • Troisi A et al.(2005) An agent-based approach for modeling molecular self-organization. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 102:255-60 PMID 15625108
  • Pace NR (2001) Special Feature: The universal nature of biochemistry. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 98:805-8
  • Dronamraju KR (1999) Erwin Schrodinger and the origins of molecular biology. Genetics 153:1071-6 PMID 10545442

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