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What is life, or are there universal properties of living systems? More than 80 years ago, Schrödinger published his seminal monograph What is Life? in which he predicted the nature of DNA as an information-carrying molecule and discussed the significance of the non-equilibrium nature of biological systems. This book was a physicist’s attempt to elucidate […]
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The essence of biological complexity is communication - a transmission of information between the component parts of an association. But what is the nature of this information and how do genomes co-operate to form a complex web?
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Complexity is all about the evolution of the possible. I initially planned a simple account of the physical properties of DNA but I soon realised that that the concepts of DNA as an informational codescript, the nature of information itself and the rise of biological complexity are intextricably intertwined. The final incarnation is very far from the book I'd initially conceived but is an amalgam of an intellectual journey that took me to places of whose existence I was previously unaware.
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