Can we define “life” in just three words? Carl Zimmer of Loom fame has written a piece for Txchnologist in which he reports on an interesting attempt: biologist Edward Trifonov looked at other people’s definitions, rather than thinking about life itself. Sifting through over a hundred suggested definitions, Trifonov looked for what they had in common, and boiled life down to “self-reproduction with variations.” Just three words, although one of them is compound so I would argue that morally i…
from Matteo Rossini on Posterous http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MatteoRossiniOnPosterous/~3/f17plKyUBOs/do-i-not-live
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