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245 00 a| Quantum aspects of life /c| editors, Derek Abbott, Paul C.W. Davies, Arun K. Pati ; foreword by Roger Penrose.;

300 a| xxvi, 442 pages :b| illustrations (some color) ;c| 24 cm;

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504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

505 0 a| A quantum origin of life? / Paul C.W. Davies -- Quantum mechanics and emergence / Seth Lloyd -- Quantum coherence and the search for the first replicator / Jim Al-Khalili and Johnjoe McFadden -- Ultrafast quantum dynamics in photosynthesis / Alexandra Olaya Castro ... [et al.] -- Modelling quantum decoherence in biomolecules / Jacques Bothma, Joel Gilmore, and Ross H. McKenzie -- Molecular evolution : a role for quantum mechanics in the dynamics of molecular machines that read and write DNA / Anita Goel -- Memory depends on the cytoskeleton, but is it quantum? / Andreas Mershin and Dimitri V. Nanopoulos -- Quantum metabolism and allometric scaling relations in biology / Lloyd Demetrius -- Spectroscopy of the genetic code / Jim D. Bashford and Peter D. Jarvis -- Towards understanding the origin of genetic languages / Apoorva D. Patel -- Can arbitrary quantum systems undergo self-replication? / Arun K. Pati and Samuel L. Braunstein -- A semi-quantum version of the game of life / Adrian P. Flitney and Derek Abbott -- Evolutionary stability in quantum games / Azhar Iqbal and Taksu Cheon -- Quantum transmemetic intelligence / Edward W. Piotrowski and Jan Sladkowski -- Dreams versus reality : plenary debate session on quantum computing -- Plenary debate: quantum effects in biology : trivial or not? -- Nontrivial quantum effects in biology : a skeptical physicists' view / Howard Wiseman and Jens Eisert -- That's life! : the geometry of pi electron clouds / Stuart Hameroff.;

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Quantum aspects of life / editors, Derek Abbott, Paul C.W. Davies, Arun K. Pati ; foreword by Roger Penrose.

Other author	Abbott, Derek, 1960-
Other author	Davies, P. C. W.
Other author	Pati, Arun K.
Format	Book
Publication Info	London : Imperial College Press ; Hackensack, NJ ; London : Distributed by World Scientific, ©2008.
Description	xxvi, 442 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content	Table of contents only
Subjects	Quantum biochemistry.

Contents	A quantum origin of life? / Paul C.W. Davies -- Quantum mechanics and emergence / Seth Lloyd -- Quantum coherence and the search for the first replicator / Jim Al-Khalili and Johnjoe McFadden -- Ultrafast quantum dynamics in photosynthesis / Alexandra Olaya Castro ... [et al.] -- Modelling quantum decoherence in biomolecules / Jacques Bothma, Joel Gilmore, and Ross H. McKenzie -- Molecular evolution : a role for quantum mechanics in the dynamics of molecular machines that read and write DNA / Anita Goel -- Memory depends on the cytoskeleton, but is it quantum? / Andreas Mershin and Dimitri V. Nanopoulos -- Quantum metabolism and allometric scaling relations in biology / Lloyd Demetrius -- Spectroscopy of the genetic code / Jim D. Bashford and Peter D. Jarvis -- Towards understanding the origin of genetic languages / Apoorva D. Patel -- Can arbitrary quantum systems undergo self-replication? / Arun K. Pati and Samuel L. Braunstein -- A semi-quantum version of the game of life / Adrian P. Flitney and Derek Abbott -- Evolutionary stability in quantum games / Azhar Iqbal and Taksu Cheon -- Quantum transmemetic intelligence / Edward W. Piotrowski and Jan Sladkowski -- Dreams versus reality : plenary debate session on quantum computing -- Plenary debate: quantum effects in biology : trivial or not? -- Nontrivial quantum effects in biology : a skeptical physicists' view / Howard Wiseman and Jens Eisert -- That's life! : the geometry of pi electron clouds / Stuart Hameroff.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN	2008029345
ISBN	9781848162532 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN	1848162537 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN	9781848162679 (paperback : alk. paper)
ISBN	1848162677 (paperback : alk. paper)

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