Properties of life : toward a theory of organismic biology / Bernd Rosslenbroich. -- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2023. – (58.13/R836)

Contents

Series Foreword
1  Introduction
2  History and Presence of Organismic Thinking in Biology
3  Working Hypothesis
4  Properties of Life
4.1  Interdependencies
4.2  Integrative Biological Systems
4.3  Autonomy
4.4 Agency
4.5  Processing of Molecules
4.6  Processing Information
4.7  Processing of Energy
4.8  Processes of Shape
4.9  Time Autonomy
4.10 Sensitivity and Affectability
4.11 Subjective Experience
4.12 The Ability to Evolve
4.13 Growth and Development
4.14 Environmental Interrelationship
4.15 Reproduction and Death
5  Synthesis
References
Index