Man on his Nature
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1955
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Written by the Nobel laureate Sir Charles Sherrington (1857–1952)
Sherrington contrasts a modern biologist's attitude towards the origins of life with that essentially held by a physician philosopher of the sixteenth century. He shows that there is no longer any logical division of matter into living and non-living and that 'growth' is likely to be expressible in terms identical with those used in atomic physics: chemical action upon which growth depends, being but a name for a complex of inter-atomic electrical changes.
Originally published in 1940, this is the Pelican Books edition of 1955.
Sherrington contrasts a modern biologist's attitude towards the origins of life with that essentially held by a physician philosopher of the sixteenth century. He shows that there is no longer any logical division of matter into living and non-living and that 'growth' is likely to be expressible in terms identical with those used in atomic physics: chemical action upon which growth depends, being but a name for a complex of inter-atomic electrical changes.
Originally published in 1940, this is the Pelican Books edition of 1955.
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