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:*Excerpt from Conclusion: "“Living organisms are autopoietic systems: self-constructing, self-maintaining, energy-transducing autocatalytic entities” in which information needed to construct the next generation of organisms is stabilized in nucleic acids that replicate within the context of whole cells and work with other developmental resources during the life-cycles of organisms, but they are also “systems capable of evolving by variation and natural selection: self-reproducing entities, whose forms and functions are adapted to their environment and reflect the composition and history of an ecosystem” (Harold 2001, 232)." | :*Excerpt from Conclusion: "“Living organisms are autopoietic systems: self-constructing, self-maintaining, energy-transducing autocatalytic entities” in which information needed to construct the next generation of organisms is stabilized in nucleic acids that replicate within the context of whole cells and work with other developmental resources during the life-cycles of organisms, but they are also “systems capable of evolving by variation and natural selection: self-reproducing entities, whose forms and functions are adapted to their environment and reflect the composition and history of an ecosystem” (Harold 2001, 232)." | ||
*[http://www.larger-than-life.org/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=2 Life under extreme conditions]. | *[http://www.larger-than-life.org/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=2 Life under extreme conditions]. | ||
*[http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9106478/life Life - Encyclopedia Britannica article by Carl Sagan, etc.] | |||
Revision as of 16:02, 14 June 2008
- Please sort and annotate in a user-friendly manner and consider archiving the URLs behind the links you provide. See also related web sources.
- From the preface: "How life on Earth got going is still mysterious, but not for want of ideas."
- Excerpt from Conclusion: "“Living organisms are autopoietic systems: self-constructing, self-maintaining, energy-transducing autocatalytic entities” in which information needed to construct the next generation of organisms is stabilized in nucleic acids that replicate within the context of whole cells and work with other developmental resources during the life-cycles of organisms, but they are also “systems capable of evolving by variation and natural selection: self-reproducing entities, whose forms and functions are adapted to their environment and reflect the composition and history of an ecosystem” (Harold 2001, 232)."