Yaşam Nedir? Biyolojinin Kimyaya Dönüşümü

How can living beings be defined? What are the features that distinguish them from inanimate matter? How can they be so different from each other when they are both composed of the same "dead" molecules? What about the emergence of the first living thing? Although Darwin's theory of evolution successfully explains how all living things evolved from unicellular organisms, it leaves unanswered the question of how the first living thing emerged. By focusing on this critical process, this book explains how inanimate matter turns into the simplest living being.

Thinking that separate laws govern living beings and inanimate matter creates a discontinuity. However, theoretical chemist Addy Pross says that such a discontinuity is out of the question, that the transition from inanimate matter to living beings and the subsequent evolution of living things is an uninterrupted process, and that a single fundamental principle underlies all of them. And through his theory based on this basic principle, he builds a solid bridge between living and non-living things, and between chemistry and biology.

This important work, which convincingly demonstrates that "Darwinian theory, that basic biological principle, can be embedded in a more general theory of chemical evolution that covers both living and non-living systems" is an exciting book that everyone who wants to fully understand life should read.

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Translation: Raşit Gürdilek
Prepared for Publication by: Özde Duygu Gürkan

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

Size: 13x20

First Print Year: 2017

Number of Printings: 1st Edition

Number of Pages: 192

Media Type: Paperback

Original Name: What Is Life? How Chemistry Becomes Biology