Biochemistry fine-tuning

Barrow, J.D., Freeland, S.J., Harper, C.L. and Morris, S.C. (eds.) (2006). Fitness of the Cosmos for life Biochemistry and Fine-Tuning (promoted by Templeton Foundation). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, to be published, (promoted by Templeton Foundation)... 

Creating a perspective for comparing. In Proceedings of the J. Templeton Foundation Biochemistry and Fine-tuning , Harvard University, October 10-12, 2003. 

Fitness of the Cosmos for Life Biochemistry and Fine-Tuning, ed. J. D. Barrow et al. Published by Cambridge University Press. Cambridge University Press 2007. 

Today, we need to search the roots of Henderson s biocentrism at the molecular level. In fact, fine-tuning in biochemistry is represented by the strength of the chemical bonds that makes the universal genetic code possible. Neither transcription nor translation of the messages encoded in RNA and DNA would be possible if the... 

The problem of how life was created is a fascinating one. Our focus is on looking at life on earth and asking how it works. The lessons we learn provide hints to the answer to the deep and fundamental question pondered by our ancients Was life on earth inevitable Then there are the questions posed by Henderson [ 1 ] Is the nature of our physical world biocentric Is there a need for fine-tuning in biochemistry to provide for the fitness of life in the cosmos - or, even less ambitiously, for life here on earth Surprisingly, as we will show, a physics approach turns out to be valuable for thinking about these questions. 

Might flne-tuning in biochemistry be fundamentally different from fine-tuning in physics and cosmology ... 

Fitness of the Cosmos for Life Biochemistry and Fine-Tuning... 

Fitness of the Cosmos for Life Biochemistry and Fine-Tuning - An Interdisciplinary, Exploratory Research Project Commemorating the 90th Anniversary of the Publication of Lawrence J. Henderson s The Fitness OF THE Environment held at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, October 11-12, 2003. See http //www.templeton.org/archive/biochem-finetuning. 

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