Bringing chemistry to life : from matter to man / R.J.P. Williams and J.J.R. Fraústo da Silva.
- Williams, R. J. P. (Robert Joseph Paton)
- Date:
- 1999
- Books
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Description
"Bringing Chemistry to Life describes the long journey from formless inanimate matter to man, while explaining the nature and the logic of the physical-chemical processes involved, and stressing the limitations of reductionist analyses of these processes as complexity increases and novel properties emerge. The authors develop the idea that chemical change of the environment allowed evolution of life to occur and that this evolution required successive addition of new message systems and information codes - connected, compatible, and cooperative with previous extant systems."--BOOK JACKET.
Publication/Creation
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999 [2001]
Physical description
xxii, 548 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Notes
Copy 1. Supplier/Donor: Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.
Contents
Units of energy and work and the values of some physical constants -- The development of man's ideas concerning nature -- Forces and related energies -- Electrons in atoms and their energetics -- Ordering and stability of atom and component associations -- The balance between order and disorder -- Dilute solutions and order-disorder balance -- Systems with boundaries: compartments -- Change and its control -- Evolution of Earth -- The principles of the chemistry of living systems -- Early life: anaerobic prokaryotes -- The development of anaerobic organisation: from prokaryotes to eukaryotes -- The coming of dioxygen: unicellular organisms -- The coming of multicellular organisms -- The evolution of man and his chemistry -- Survey and conclusion -- Further reading -- Index.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (p. [523]-535) and index.
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Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed storesM9890
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ISBN
- 0198505469
- 9780198505464