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The Organism as a Whole, from a Physicochemical Viewpoint

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The Organism as a Whole, from a Physicochemical Viewpoint

Jacques Loeb

345 pages~6 hr 53 min read41 chapters$4.99
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What separates living matter from dead, and where did life begin? Jacques Loeb attacks the question from a physicochemical view, treating the organism as a whole governed by chemistry. Rigorous, bold, and reductive to the core. A landmark argument that life obeys the laws of physics and matter. For readers drawn to the hard science of what living really means. Confront life as chemistry.

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41 chapters

  1. 1The Organism as a Whole
  2. 2PREFACE
  3. 3CONTENTS
  4. 4The Organism as a Whole
  5. 5CHAPTER I
  6. 6INTRODUCTORY REMARKS
  7. 7CHAPTER II
  8. 8THE SPECIFIC DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LIVING AND DEAD MATTER AND THE QUESTION OF THE ORIGIN OF LIFE
  9. 9CHAPTER III
  10. 10THE CHEMICAL BASIS OF GENUS AND SPECIES
  11. 11I. The Incompatibility of Species not closely Related
  12. 12II. The Chemical Basis of Genus and Species and of Species Specificity
  13. 13CHAPTER IV
  14. 14SPECIFICITY IN FERTILIZATION
  15. 15CHAPTER V
  16. 16ARTIFICIAL PARTHENOGENESIS
  17. 17CHAPTER VI
  18. 18DETERMINISM IN THE FORMATION OF AN ORGANISM FROM AN EGG

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