Urry, Dan W.
What Sustains Life?
1. Introduction
2. What Sustains Life? An Overview
3. The Pilgrimage: Highlights in Our Understanding of the Products and Components of Living Organisms
4. Likelihood of Life’s Protein Machines:
5. Consilient Mechanisms for Diverse Protein-based Machines: The Efficient Comprehensive Hydrophobic Effect
6. On the Evolution of Protein-based Machines (Toward Complexity of Structure and Diversity of Function)
7. Biology Thrives Near a Movable Cusp of Insolubility
8. Consilient Mechanisms for Protein-based machines of Biology
9. Advanced Materials for the Future: Protein-based Materials with Potential to Sustain Individual Health and Societal Development
10. Epilogue
Keywords: Life Sciences, Evolutionary Biology, Biophysics/Biomedical Physics, Community & Population Ecology
- Author(s)
- Urry, Dan W.
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2006
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 650 pages
- Category
- Natural Sciences
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780817645625