Titlebook: What Sustains Life?; Consilient Mechanism Dan W. Urry Book 2006 Birkhäuser Boston 2006 biology.complexity.development.evolution.protein

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.Intended for a broad readership, but useful for the professIn the sixth century BC, Thales of Miletus, father of the Ionian Enhghtenment, setting aside the mythic views of Homer and Hesiod asked, "What is the world made of?" and thereby became the first physicist.^ He answered that water is the bas

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Introduction, and address the transition from a prebiotic to a biotic earth, which concern the more profound transition from the absence to the presence of self-sustaining, self-replicating Life. With present knowledge it seems possible that the origins of Life could have involved far-from-equilibrium conditions

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What Sustains Life? An Overview,ist burns the oils that have accumulated over the millennia in the earth’s crust and energizes molecules to react. On a smaller scale, the chemist sees the march toward disorder; the oils become dispersed and disordered gases, and the excited new molecules become dormant. Both physicists and chemist

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,Likelihood of Life’s Protein Machines: , Yet ,,construct. Perhaps in part because of this improbability, searches for understanding have reasonably considered far-from-equilibrium conditions and addressed circumstances whereby order may appear out of chaos. On the other hand, biochemists with painstaking commitment have worked their way down to

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Consilient Mechanisms for Diverse Protein-based Machines: The Efficient Comprehensive Hydrophobic E., gasoline-reciprocating piston) engine that performs the work of putting a vehicle in motion. Fuel is injected in a timely manner into a series of chambers; the fuel vapors are ignited in each chamber; a series of explosions of hot expanding gasses occur in properly timed sequence; the hot expandi

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Epilogue,tial role in the living body” and, specifically. at the level of those forces central to the function of the protein-based machines that sustain Life. in Chapter 5, by . design, without having resorted to copying or mimicking any recognized biological protein-based machine, elastic-contractile model