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The Equations Of Life

How Physics Shapes Evolution

• Charles S. Cockell

• Multco Hillsdale . 576.801 C6661e . 2018
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• p001 Ch01 Life's Silent Commander

• p02 Compare massive star to ladybug

• p04 Trigonotarbids, 250 MYa archnids

• p019 Ch02 Organizing the Multitudes

• p024 active matter physics, Tamás Vicsek

• p026 formula for probability of ant choosing a pheromone trail marked by a prior ant or ants, not usable without examples and numbers
• p027 formulas obscured when many ants swarm towards multiple goals
• p028 self-organizing behavior, not supervised but seeming so
• p034 birds save energy by flying in formation and coordinating wing beats, minimizing downwash effects
• p035 18yo Cockell in the Canadian north, banding birds caught in nets, then released
  • different ducks behaved differently, unique individual "personalities"
• p035 Physics trumps individuality
• p036 cellular cytoskeleton proteins self-organize

• p037 kinesin (anterograde) and myosin (retrograde) motor molecules crawl along polar tubulin filaments

• p039 Ch03 The Physics of the Ladybug

• p044 500nm ladybug hindwings under hard elytra wing cases

• p045 chiten 10% steel strength, 10x keratin/hair strength

• p055 irrefragable irrefutable, indisputable

• p055 hemolymph insect body fluid comparable to vertebrate blood

• p056 mathematical olio heterogeneous hodgepodge

• p059 Ch04 All Creatures Great and Small

• p061 mole tolerance of high CO₂

• p061 Talpidae

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• p083 Ch05 Bundles of Life

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• p092 np285 Barve 2014: Historical contingency and the gradual evolution of metabolic properties in central carbon and genome-scale metabolisms

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• p095 np287 Persat 2014: The curved shape of Caulobacter crescentus enhances surface colonization in flow

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• p105 Ch06 The Edge of Life

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• p125 Ch07 The Code of Life

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• p145 Ch08 Of Sandwiches and Sulfur

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• p167 Ch09 Water, the Liquid of Life

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• p195 Ch10 The Atoms Of Life

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• p217 Ch11 Universal Biology

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• p239 Ch12 The Laws of Life: Evolution and Physics Unified

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• p259 Acknowledgements

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• p263 Notes

• p325 Index