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Embryos, galaxies, and sentient beings : how the universe makes life

Print Book, English, ©2003
North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, Calif., ©2003
xxxviii, 505 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9781556434198, 1556434197
52090613
What is life?
Is there a plan?
Biogenesis and cosmogenesis
The principles of biological design
The dynamics of the biosphere
The limits of genetic determinism
The wahhabi critique of Darwinian materialism
Topokinesis
Tissue motifs and body plans
The primordial field
Meaning and destiny