What Sustains Life? Consilient Mechanisms for Protein-Based Machines and Materials /

What Sustains Life? Consilient Mechanisms for Protein-Based Machines and Materials /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Urry, Dan W. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston, MA : Birkhäuser Boston : Imprint: Birkhäuser, 2006.
Edition:1st ed. 2006.
Subjects:
Evolutionary biology.
Biophysics.
Biological physics.
Community ecology, Biotic.
Evolutionary Biology.
Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics.
Community & Population Ecology.
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-8176-4562-5
Table of Contents:
  • What Sustains Life? An Overview
  • The Pilgrimage: Highlights in Our Understanding of the Products and Components of Living Organisms
  • Likelihood of Life's Protein Machines: Extravagant in Construction Yet Efficient in Function
  • Consilient Mechanisms for Diverse Protein-based Machines: The Efficient Comprehensive Hydrophobic Effect
  • On the Evolution of Protein-based Machines (Toward Complexity of Structure and Diversity of Function)
  • Biology Thrives Near a Movable Cusp of Insolubility
  • Consilient Mechanisms for Protein-based machines of Biology
  • Advanced Materials for the Future: Protein-based Materials with Potential to Sustain Individual Health and Societal Development
  • Epilogue.

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