World renowned physiologist Denis Noble argues that, to understand life, we must look beyond the "selfish gene" to consider life on a much wider variety of levels. Life, Noble asserts, is a kind of music, a symphonic interplay between genes, cells, organs, body, and environment. He weaves this musical metaphor throughout this personal and deeply lyrical work, as he outlines a cutting-edge alternative to the gene's eye view, in which genes are seen as prisoners and the organism itself is a complex system of many interacting ...
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World renowned physiologist Denis Noble argues that, to understand life, we must look beyond the "selfish gene" to consider life on a much wider variety of levels. Life, Noble asserts, is a kind of music, a symphonic interplay between genes, cells, organs, body, and environment. He weaves this musical metaphor throughout this personal and deeply lyrical work, as he outlines a cutting-edge alternative to the gene's eye view, in which genes are seen as prisoners and the organism itself is a complex system of many interacting levels. In his more expansive view, life emerges as a process, the ebb and flow of activity in an intricate web of connections.
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