An Introduction to the Physical Chemistry of Biological Organization

By Arthur Peacocke

Book Overview

This book introduces both physical and biological scientists to important thermodynamic and kinetic interpretations of living systems that involve major conceptual developments in the application of physio-chemical ideas. A concluding discusion relates these developments to other widely canvassed ideas that have been recently applied to living systems, including thermodynamic aspects of evolution, informaton theory, and hierarchy and the question of reductionism.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198553595
• ISBN13: 9780198553595
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 312 Pages