The Dual Nature of Life (Record no. 103169)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9783642303944
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Standard number or code 10.1007/978-3-642-30394-4
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Classification number QH359-425
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Subject category code PSAJ
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Subject category code SCI027000
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082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 576.8
Edition number 23
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Zhegunov, Gennadiy.
Relator term author.
245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The Dual Nature of Life
Medium [electronic resource] :
Remainder of title Interplay of the Individual and the Genome /
Statement of responsibility, etc by Gennadiy Zhegunov.
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-- Springer Berlin Heidelberg :
-- Imprint: Springer,
-- 2012.
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Extent XII, 298 p. 51 illus.
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Series statement The Frontiers Collection,
International Standard Serial Number 1612-3018
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note The Phenomenon of Life. Essentials.- Living Bodies – Carriers of Life.- How Life Works – Mechanisms and Processes of Living Bodies -- Mechanisms of the Invisible World of Information -- Duality of Life.
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Summary, etc Life is a diverse and ubiquitous phenomenon on Earth, characterized by fundamental features distinguishing living bodies from nonliving material. Yet it is also so complex that it has long defied precise definition. This book from a seasoned biologist offers new insights into the nature of life by illuminating a fascinating architecture of dualities inherent in its existence and propagation. Life is connected with individual living beings, yet it is also a collective and inherently global phenomenon of the material world. It embodies a dual existence of cycles of phenotypic life, and their unseen driver — an uninterrupted march of genetic information whose collective immortality is guaranteed by individual mortality. Although evolution propagates and tunes species of organisms, the beings produced can be regarded merely as tools for the survival and cloning of genomes written in an unchanging code. What are the physical versus informational bases and driving forces of life, and how do they unite as an integrated system? What does time mean for individuals, life on the global scale, and the underlying information? This accessible examination of principles and evidence shows that a network of dualities lies at the heart of biological puzzles that have engaged the human mind for millennia.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Evolution (Biology).
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Science (General).
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Life Sciences.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Evolutionary Biology.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Popular Science, general.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Cell Biology.
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Title Springer eBooks
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Display text Printed edition:
International Standard Book Number 9783642303937
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Uniform title The Frontiers Collection,
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Uniform Resource Identifier http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30394-4
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