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Author:   Derek Abbott (Univ Of Adelaide, Australia) ,  Paul C W Davies (Arizona State Univ, Usa) ,  Arun Kumar Pati (Inst Of Physics, Orissa, India)
Publisher:   Imperial College Press
Imprint:   Imperial College Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.70cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.794kg
ISBN:  

9781848162532

ISBN 10:   1848162537
Pages:   468
Publication Date:   15 September 2008
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock  
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Table of Contents

Emergence and Complexity: A Quantum Origin of Life? (P C W Davies); Quantum Mechanics and Emergence (S Lloyd); Quantum Mechanisms in Biology: Quantum Coherence and the Search for the First Replicator (J Al-Khalili & J McFadden); Ultrafast Quantum Dynamics in Photosynthesis (A O Castro et al.); Modeling Quantum Decoherence in Biomolecules (J Bothma et al.); The Biological Evidence: Molecular Evolution (A Goel); Memory Depends on the Cytoskeleton, but is it Quantum? (A Mershin & D V Nanopoulos); Quantum Metabolism and Allometric Scaling Relations in Biology (L Demetrius); Spectroscopy of the Genetic Code (J D Bashford & P D Jarvis); Towards Understanding the Origin of Genetic Languages (A D Patel); Artificial Quantum Life: Can Arbitrary Quantum Systems Undergo Self-Replication? (A K Pati & S L Braunstein); A Semi-Quantum Version of the Game of Life (A P Flitney & D Abbott); Evolutionary Stability in Quantum Games (A Iqbal & T Cheon); Quantum Transmemetic Intelligence (E W Piotrowski & J Stadkowski); The Debate: Dreams versus Reality: Plenary Debate Session on Quantum Computing; Plenary Debate: Quantum Effects in Biology: Trivial or Not?; Non-trivial Quantum Effects in Biology: A Skeptical Physicist's View (H Wiseman & J Eisert); That's Life! - The Geometry of Electron Clouds (S Hameroff).

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