The Life Organic: The Theoretical Biology Club and the Roots of Epigenetics by Erik L. Peterson

The Life Organic: The Theoretical Biology Club and the Roots of Epigenetics

Erik L. Peterson

352 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

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As scientists debated the nature of life in the nineteenth century, two theories predominated: vitalism, which suggested that living things contained a "vital spark," and mechanism, the idea that animals and humans differed from nonliving things o...

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