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Understanding Living Systems

Understanding Living Systems - Understanding Life

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Publisher's Synopsis

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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Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press dates from 1534 and is part of the University of Cambridge. We further the University's mission by disseminating knowledge in the pursuit of education, learning and research at the highest international levels of excellence.

Book information

ISBN: 9781009277365
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 570
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 182
Weight: 190g
Height: 126mm
Width: 178mm
Spine width: 13mm