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What is life? / edited by Stefan Helmreich, [and three others] (Biogroup), in association with Katrin Klingan and Nick Houde
"What Is Life?" is a question that has haunted the life sciences since Gottfried Treviranus and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck independently coined the word "biology" in 1802. The query has titled scores of articles and books, with Erwin Schrödinger's in 1944 and Lynn Margulis & Dorion Sagan's in 1995 being only the most prominent ones. In this book, Biogroop curate and speculate upon a collection of first pages of publications from 1829-2020 containing "What Is Life?" in their titles. Replies to the question--and, by extension, the object of biology--have transformed since its first enunciation, from "the sum of the functions that resist death" to "a bioinformation system" to "edible, lovable, lethal." Interleaved are frame-shifting interruptions reflecting on how the question has been posed, answered, and may yet be unasked.
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- ISBN: 9783959054980
- ISBN: 395905498X
- Physical Description: 165 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Leipzig : Spector Books, [2022]
- Copyright: ©2022
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- Includes bibliographical references.
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emily Carr University of Art + Design | QH501 .W46 2022 (Text) | 30244744 | Book | Volume hold | Available | - |