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Originally Posted by FlorenceArt
I am currently not reading (started it but got sidetracked  ) a book by Edgar Morin, who is a French thinker of complexity. Probably not the most adequate wording, but I hope you see what I mean. Some atoms get together and you get a molecule, whose properties are not the same as the sum of the atoms' properties. Some of these molecules somehow got together and formed the beginning of a cell. Then some cells got together and a living organism was born. |
I'll have a look at that book. I quite liked
Seven Clues to the Origin of Life by Cairns-Smith which covered the transition from chemical to biological life.
The selfish gene by Dawkins is also required reading. I currently have
Genome by Riddley on my reading list and this is also suppose to be a good read.