| 书目名称 | In Search of the Physical Basis of Life | | 编辑 | Gilbert N. Ling | | 视频video | | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | It is highly probable that the ability to distinguish between living and nonliving objects was already well developed in early prehuman animals. Cognizance of the difference between these two classes of objects, long a part of human knowledge, led naturally to the division of science into two categories: physics and chemistry on the one hand and biology on the other. So deep was this belief in the separateness of physics and biology that, as late as the early nineteenth century, many biologists still believed in vitalism, according to which living phenomena fall outside the confines of the laws of physics. It was not until the middle of the nineteenth century that Carl Ludwig, Hermann von Helmholz, Emil DuBois-Reymond, and Ernst von Briicke inaugurated a physicochem ical approach to physiology in which it was recognized clearly that one set of laws must govern the properties and behavior of all matter, living and nonliving . . The task of a biologist is like trying to solve a gigantic multidimensional crossword fill in the right physical concepts at the right places. The biologist depends on puzzle: to the maturation of the science of physics much as the crossword solver depends o | | 出版日期 | Book 1984 | | 关键词 | animals; behavior; biology; chemistry; metabolism; physical concepts; physics; physiology; Tree Biology | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2667-0 | | isbn_softcover | 978-1-4612-9661-4 | | isbn_ebook | 978-1-4613-2667-0 | | copyright | Plenum Press, New York 1984 |
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