The Quest for a Universal Theory of Life: Searching for Life as We Don't Know It

by Carol E. Cleland

Integrating both scientific and philosophical perspectives, this book provides an informed analysis of the challenges of formulating a universal theory of life. Among the issues discussed are crucial differences between definitions and scientific theories and, in the context of examples from the history of science, how successful general theories develop. The central problem discussed is two-fold: first, our understanding of life is still tacitly...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052187324X
• ISBN13: 9780521873246
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.1" x 9.8"