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Prolegomenon to a General Biology
Author(s) -
Kauffman Stuart A.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
annals of the new york academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.712
H-Index - 248
eISSN - 1749-6632
pISSN - 0077-8923
DOI - 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2001.tb03466.x
Subject(s) - computational biology , biology
A bstract : This chapter is a slightly modified version of Chapter 1 of my book, Investigations . I discuss “autonomous agents,” the origin of life, autocatalytic sets of polymers, work cycles, puzzles about evolutionary theory, and the birth of a general biology dealing with biospheres anywhere in the universe.