Life/Bibliography

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Books

• Schrödinger E (1944-2000) What is Life? Cambridge University Press (Canto). ISBN 0-521-42708-8 Chapter 6: Order, Disorder and Entropy (Prediction of hereditary molecule like a coded periodic crystal — Watson claims inspiration — Stresses open thermodynamic systems key to life.)
• Kaneko K (2006) Life: An Introduction to Complex Systems Biology. Springer, Berlin ISBN 3-540-32666-9
• Dill KA, Bromberg S, Stigter D (2003) Molecular Driving Forces: Statistical Thermodynamics in Chemistry and Biology. Garland Science, New York. ISBN 0-8153-2051-5
• Strogatz SH (2003) Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order. Theia, New York ISBN 0-7868-6844-9
• Buchanan M (2002) Nexus: Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Science of Networks. W.W. Norton, New York ISBN 0-393-04153-0
• Hoagland M, Dodson B, Hauck J (2001) Exploring the Way Life Works: The Science of Biology. Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc, Mississauga, Ontario ISBN 0-7637-1688-X (For young people. An illustrated text.)
• Solé R, Goodwin B (2000) Signs of Life: How Complexity Pervades Biology. Basic Books, Perseus Books Group, New York ISBN 0-465-01928-5
• Loewenstein WR (2000) The Touchstone of life: Molecular Information, Cell Communication, and the Foundations of Life. Oxford University Press ISBN 0-19-514057-5 Book Review and Chapter One
• Hoagland M, Dodson B (1998) The Way Life Works: The Science Lovers Illustrated Guide to How Life Grows, Develops, Reproduces, and Gets Along. Three Rivers Press, New York ISBN 0-8129-2888-1 (For young people. An illustrated text.)
• Margulis L, Sagan D (1995) What is Life? Simon & Schuster ISBN 0-684-81087-5
• Rosen R. (1991) Life Itself: A Comprehensive Inquiry Into The Nature, Origin, And Fabrication Of Life. Columbia University Press, New York. ISBN 0-231-07565-0
• Kauffman SA. (1993) The Origins of Order: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution. Oxford University Press, New York. ISBN 0195058119
• Kauffman S. (1995) At Home in the Universe: The Search for Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity. Oxford University Press, New York. ISBN 0195095995
• Mayr E. (1997) Evolution and the Diversity of Life: Selected Essays. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
• Holland JH. (1998) Emergence: From Chaos to Order. Perseus Books, Cambridge. ISBN 0-7382-0142-1
• Haynie DT. (2001) Biological Thermodynamics. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 13-978-0-521-79549-4; 10-0-521-79165-0
• Harold FM. (2001) The Way of the Cell: Molecules, Organisms, and the Order of Life. Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN 0195135121
• Kirschner MW, Gerhart JC, Norton J. (2005) The Plausibility of Life: Resolving Darwin's Dilemma. Yale University Press, New Haven. ISBN 13-978-0-300-11977-0; 10-0-300-11977-1
• Reid RGB. (2007) Biological Emergences: Evolution by Natural Experiment. A Bradford Book, Cambridge . ISBN 10: 0-262-18257-2
• De Duve C (2004) Life Evolving: Molecules, Mind, and Meaning. Oxford University Press. New York ISBN 0195156056

Articles

• Hulbert, A. J.; Reinald Pamplona & Rochelle Buffenstein et al. (2007), "Life and Death: Metabolic Rate, Membrane Composition, and Life Span of Animals", Physiological Reviews 87 (4): 1175-1213, DOI:10.1152/physrev.00047.2006 ^[e]
• Walsh, D. (2006), "Organisms as natural purposes: the contemporary evolutionary perspective", Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 37: 771-791, DOI:10.1016/j.shpsc.2006.09.009 ^[e]
• Epstein IR, Pojman JA, Steinbock O (2006) Introduction: Self-organization in nonequilibrium chemical systems. Chaos 16:037101 PMID 17014235

• Abstract: The field of self-organization in nonequilibrium chemical systems comprises the study of dynamical phenomena in chemically reacting systems far from equilibrium. Systematic exploration of this area began with investigations of the temporal behavior of the Belousov-Zhabotinsky oscillating reaction, discovered accidentally in the former Soviet Union in the 1950s. The field soon advanced into chemical waves in excitable media and propagating fronts. With the systematic design of oscillating reactions in the 1980s and the discovery of Turing patterns in the 1990s, the scope of these studies expanded dramatically. The articles in this Focus Issue provide an overview of the development and current state of the field.

• Hazen R (2006) The Big Questions: What is Life? New Scientist Issue 2578, pages 46-51.
• Marenduzzo D et al. (2006) Entropy-driven genome organization. Biophys J 90:3712-21 PMID 16500976
• Morowitz H, Smith E (2006) Energy flow and the organization of life
• Scheffer M, van Nes EH (2006) Self-organized similarity, the evolutionary emergence of groups of similar species. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 103:6230-5 PMID 16585519
• Walsh DM (2006) Organisms as natural purposes: The contemporary evolutionary perspective. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 37:771-91
• Park K et al. (2005) Self-organized scale-free networks. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys 72:026131 PMID 16196668
• Troisi A et al.(2005) An agent-based approach for modeling molecular self-organization. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 102:255-60 PMID 15625108
• Koshland DE, Jr. (2002) Special essay. The seven pillars of life. Science 295:2215-2216 PMID 11910092

• The Seven Pillars: Program (DNA), Improvisation (evolution), Compartmentalization (boundary with environment), Energy (the flow of energy through the system), Regeneration (re-synthesis of parts), Adaptability (‘behavioral’ responsiveness), Seclusion (metabolic pathways do not have their privacy invaded).

• Pace NR (2001) Special Feature: The universal nature of biochemistry. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 98:805-8
  
• Dronamraju KR (1999) Erwin Schrodinger and the origins of molecular biology. Genetics 153:1071-6 PMID 10545442

Interviews and Commentaries

• Kauffman S. The Adjacent Possible: A Talk with Stuart Kauffman