So Simple a Beginning
A biophysicist reveals the hidden unity behind nature's breathtaking complexityThe form and function of a sprinting cheetah are quite unlike those of a rooted tree. The living world is a realm of dazzling variety, yet a shared set of physical principles shapes the forms and… Celý popis ↓
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So Simple a Beginning
A biophysicist reveals the hidden unity behind nature's breathtaking complexityThe form and function of a sprinting cheetah are quite unlike those of a rooted tree. The living world is a realm of dazzling variety, yet a shared set of physical principles shapes the forms and behaviors of every creature in it. A human being is very different from a bacterium or a zebra.
So Simple a Beginning shows how the emerging new science of biophysics is transforming our understanding of life on Earth while helping enable potentially lifesaving but controversial technologies such as gene editing, artificial organ growth, and ecosystem engineering.Raghuveer Parthasarathy explains how four basic principles--self-assembly, regulatory circuits, predictable randomness, and scaling--shape the machinery of life on scales ranging from microscopic molecules to gigantic elephants. He
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- Princeton University Press
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