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1 The Classical Physicist's Approach To The Subject |
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The general character and the purpose of the investigation |
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Statistical physics. The fundamental difference in structure |
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The naive physicist's approach to the subject |
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Why are the atoms so small? |
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The working of an organism requires exact physical laws |
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Physical laws rest on atomic statistics and are therefore only approximate |
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Their precision is based on the large number of atoms intervening. Ist example (paramagnetism) |
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2nd example (Brownian movement, diffusion) |
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3rd example (limits of accuracy of measuring) |
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2 The Hereditary Mechanism |
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The classical physicist's expectation, far from being trivial, is wrong |
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The hereditary code-script (chromosomes) |
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Growth of the body by cell division (mitosis) |
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In mitosis every chromosome is duplicated |
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Reductive division (meiosis) and fertilization (syngamy) |
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The outstanding relevance of the reductive division |
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Crossing-over. Location of properties |
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the working-ground of natural selection |
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They breed true, i.e. they are perfectly inherited |
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Localization. Recessivity and Dominance |
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Introducing some technical language |
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The harmful effect of close-breeding |
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General and historical remarks |
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The necessity of mutation being a rare event |
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Mutations induced by X-rays |
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First law. Mutation is a single event |
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Second law. Localization of the event |
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4 The Quantum-Mechanical Evidence |
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Permanence unexplainable by classical physics |
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Explicable by quantum theory |
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Their stability dependent on temperature |
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5 Delbruck's Model Discussed And Tested |
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The general picture of the hereditary substance |
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The uniqueness of the picture |
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Some traditional misconceptions |
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Different `states' of matter |
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The distinction that really matters |
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The variety of contents compressed in the miniature code |
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Comparison with facts: degree of stability; discontinuity of mutations |
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Stability of naturally selected genes |
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The sometimes lower stability of mutants |
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Temperature influences unstable genes less than stable ones |
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How X-rays produce mutation |
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Their efficiency does not depend on spontaneous mutability |
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6 Order, Disorder And Entropy |
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A remarkable general conclusion from the model |
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Living matter evades the decay to equilibrium |
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It feeds on `negative entropy' |
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The statistical meaning of entropy |
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Organization maintained by extracting `order' from the environment |
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7 Is Life Based On The Laws Of Physics? |
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New laws to be expected in the organism |
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Reviewing the biological situation |
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Summarizing the physical situation |
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Two ways of producing orderliness |
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The new principle is not alien to physics |
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Clockwork after all statistical |
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The pendulum clock is virtually at zero temperature |
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The relation between clockwork and organism |
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Epilogue. On Determinism And Free Will |
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1 The Physical Basis Of Consciousness |
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2 The Future Of Understanding |
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A biological blind alley? |
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The apparent gloom of Darwinism |
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Behaviour influences selection |
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Genetic fixation of habits and skills |
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Dangers to intellectual evolution |
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3 The Principle Of Objectivation |
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4 The Arithmetical Paradox: The Oneness Of Mind |
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6 The Mystery Of The Sensual Qualities |
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| Autobiographical Sketches |
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