A World Beyond Physics: The Emergence and Evolution of Life

by Stuart A. Kauffman

Book Overview

How did life start? Is the evolution of life describable by any physics-like laws? Stuart Kauffman's latest book offers an explanation-beyond what the laws of physics can explain-of the progression from a complex chemical environment to molecular reproduction, metabolism and to early protocells, and further evolution to what we recognize as life. Among the estimated one hundred billion solar systems in the known universe, evolving life is surely abundant...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190871334
• ISBN13: 9780190871338
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.4"