Understanding living systems:

Life is definitively purposive and creative. Organisms use genes in controlling their destiny. This book presents a paradigm shift in understanding living systems. The genome is not a code, blueprint or set of instructions. It is a tool orchestrated by the system. This book shows that gene-centrism...

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Beteilige Person: Noble, Raymond 1947-
Weitere beteiligte Personen: Noble, Denis 1936-
Format: E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, United Kingdom New York, NY Cambridge University Press 2023
Schriftenreihe:Understanding life
Links:https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009277396
Zusammenfassung:Life is definitively purposive and creative. Organisms use genes in controlling their destiny. This book presents a paradigm shift in understanding living systems. The genome is not a code, blueprint or set of instructions. It is a tool orchestrated by the system. This book shows that gene-centrism misrepresents what genes are and how they are used by living systems. It demonstrates how organisms make choices, influencing their behaviour, their development and evolution, and act as agents of natural selection. It presents a novel approach to fundamental philosophical and cultural issues, such as free-will. Reading this book will make you see life in a new light, as a marvellous phenomenon, and in some sense a triumph of evolution. We are not in our genes, our genes are in us.
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ISBN:9781009277396