Life Itself: A Comprehensive Inquiry into the Nature, Origin, and Fabrication of Life

Robert Rosen

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Paper, 285 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-07565-7
$29.00 / £20.00

October, 1991
Cloth, 285 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-07564-0
$90.00 / £62.00

1. Prolegomenon

2. Strategic Considerations: The Special and the General

3. Some Necessary Epistemological Considerations

4. The Concept of State

5. Entailment Without States: Relational Biology

6. Analytic and Synthetic Models

7. On Simulation

8. Machines and Mechanisms

9. Relational Theory of Machines

10. Life Itself: The Preliminary Steps

11. Relational Biology and Biology

Series

• Complexity in Ecological Systems

About the Author

Dr. Robert Rosen (1934-1998) was a prominent theorist in the areas of biology and biophysics and taught and conducted research at various universities for over three decades. He was the author of thirteen books, including Anticipatory Systems; Fundamentals of Measurement and Representation of Natural Systems; Rosennean Complexity; and The Limits of the Limits of Science.

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