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Understanding Living Systems

Understanding Living Systems

by Noble, Raymond
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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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BrandCambridge University Press
Pub dateJul 6, 2023
ISBN-101009277367
ISBN-139781009277365
LanguageEnglish
Dimensions7 × 0.45 × 5 in
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