The Music of Life: Biology beyond the Genome: Biology Beyond the Genome |
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Denis Noble
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Pages: 176 (Hardcover)
ISBN: 0199295735
Pub: OUP Oxford
Pub date: 2006-06-08
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 20085
Reader Reviews:
Entertaining and thought-provoking (3/3 people found this helpful)
I endorse Lars Petter Endresen's views whole-heartedly. The book is a brain-stretching delight: an impassioned attack on narrow thinking regarding evolution, whether from the general media or other, specialised scientists. There is a parallel with Damasio's "Descartes' Error", in that the author builds a clear and compelling argument for whole, integrated body systems being created through complexity, but whereas Damasio painstakingly builds the science, Noble charges through the book, scattering entertaining anecdotes, analogies and even Buddhist fables. Magnificent.
One of the most important books I have ever read. (1/1 people found this helpful)
I honestly really enjoyed reading the book "The Music of Life" - it is one of the most important books I have ever read. Denis Noble's analogy between life and music is an important one. Just as music cannot be understood by investigating single notes at a time, one cannot investigate life by looking at single genes only. The interplay between genes, between genes and proteins, and between proteins is just as important as the genes themselves.
What makes this book particularly interesting is the combination of state of the art knowledge in many totally different fields - it is rare to find a book with so many well founded and important philosophical implications of the scientific discoveries in our time. I had to read this book twice to really appreciate all the beautiful metaphors, and I would recommend this book to everybody that enjoyed Erwin Schrödinger's book "What is Life?" - this book is an update.
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