How Life is Different

ISBN-13: 9780367775551 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 194 str.

Vitaly Shubin

Opis

The book examines basic principles of the structure and organization of living organisms and their differences from objects of inanimate nature. It is shown how a single program-information structure permeates all evolutionary stages of life, including the cell, multicellular organisms and humans.

Spis treści

Chapter 1. Cell and unicellular organisms.
Chapter 2. Multicellular organisms.
Chapter 3. Man.
Chapter 4. Program-information unity of living.
Provisions of the Program Approach.

O autorze

Vitaly Shubin is a physicist and leading researcher at the P. N. Lebedev Physics Institute Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. He has authored or co-authored more than 120 papers and has several dozen patents. His physics research has focused on the "avalanche process" under negative feedback conditions in semiconductors and implementation of multicell solid-state photomultipliers combining single-photon sensitivity with analog mode of operation. The devices based on this technology are produced by many companies and widely distributed in various detection systems of biomed, nuclear physics and technology, environmental monitoring. For the last two decades, Dr Shubin has also studied molecular biology and biology of organisms to understand and isolate the main differences in the structure and organization of interaction between bodies and objects in living and non-living nature.