Kauffman; At Home in Universe
Book	Page	Topic
Kauffman; At Home in Universe	24	Life is an emergent phenomenon arising as the molecular diversity of a prebiotic chemical system increases beyond a threshold of complexity. Life is a collective property of systems of interacting molecules.
Kauffman; At Home in Universe	25	Evolutionalry theory - sources of order in the biosphere may include both selection and self-organization.	1
Kauffman; At Home in Universe	31	Origins of Life	6
Kauffman; At Home in Universe	52	Cells of the body coordinate the behaviors of about 100,000 different kinds of molecules.	21
Kauffman; At Home in Universe	64	Emergence of life as an expected property of the physical world.	12
Kauffman; At Home in Universe	66	Einstein said a theory should be as simple as possible, but not simpler.	2
Kauffman; At Home in Universe	71	Order for free - self-organization that arises naturally	5
Kauffman; At Home in Universe	86	The Edge of Chaos	15
Kauffman; At Home in Universe	86	How do cell networks achieve both stability and flexibility? Networks may accomplish this by achieving a kind of poised state balanced on the edge of chaos.	0
Kauffman; At Home in Universe	94	The human zygote undergoes some 50 cell divisions, creating the 2⁵⁰ or 10¹⁵ cells in your body.	8
Kauffman; At Home in Universe	98	Science grows by the questions we ask.	4
Kauffman; At Home in Universe	99	Jacob and Monod established that genes can turn one another on and off, that genetic circuits can have alternative patterns of gene activities that constitute the different cell types of an organism.	1
Kauffman; At Home in Universe	107	In bacteria at full speed, the cell cycle takes about 20 minutes.	8
Kauffman; At Home in Universe	107	Certain cells lining the intestine of humans cycle every eight hours.	0
Kauffman; At Home in Universe	111	Kauffman entered medical school in 1964.	4
Kauffman; At Home in Universe	118	The number of kinds of molecules in an autocatalytic network plotted against the probability that any molecule catalyzes any specific reaction (diagram)	7
Kauffman; At Home in Universe	143	Humans have a repertoire of about 100 million different antibody molecules.	25
Kauffman; At Home in Universe	145	Proteins, like meat, are digested in your gut. Protein drugs cannot be taken orally. Drug companies prefer small organic molecules, which can be taken orally.	2
Kauffman; At Home in Universe	158	Multicelled organisms are actually known well before the famous Cambrian explosion 550 million years ago.	13
Kauffman; At Home in Universe	163	Bacteria are haploids, having only a single copy of that chromosome. Typically, bacteria simply divide; they do not have parents or sex.	5
Kauffman; At Home in Universe	163	Bacterium E. coli in the intestines has about 3000 genes.	0
Kauffman; At Home in Universe	199	The best accounts of the Cambrian suggest that as many as 100 phyla may have existed then, most of which rapidly became extinct.	36
Kauffman; At Home in Universe	204	A number of well-known features of learning curves -- (1) the power law relationship between cost per unit and total number of units produced, (2) the fact that after increasingly long periods with no improvement, sudden improvements often occur, (3) the fact that improvement typically reaches a plateau and ceases.	5
Kauffman; At Home in Universe	208	Fitness landscapes change because the environment changes.	4
Kauffman; At Home in Universe	208	Selection takes out the fitter variant individuals -- those likely to leave the most offspring.	0
Kauffman; At Home in Universe	215	Flowers coevolved with insects.	7
Kauffman; At Home in Universe	236	The size distribution of earthquakes, measured on the familiar Richter scale, which is just the logarithm of the total energy released in the quake, follows a power law, with many small quakes and a few large ones.	21
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