Consciousness-based evolution / John S. Torday, Professor of Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Evolutionary Medicine, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, Director, The Henry L. Guenther Laboratory for Cell-Molecular Research, The Lundquist Institute, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, Fellow, The European Academy of Science and Arts.

First edition.

Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024.

©2024

x, 177 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

"Biology remains the only basic science that is descriptive instead of being predictive, unlike physics and chemistry. The physicist Rutherford was infamous for saying that "all science is either physics or stamp collecting". That was due to the lack of reduction of biology to the cell, and beyond to molecular biology and genomics, rendering the cell on par with the atom. We now have the opportunity to make biology a 'hard' science, capable of prediction, particularly with regard to its role as the basic science for medicine. The cell-cell signaling principle behind structure and function in biology has now been exploited in order allow for predictive biology for the first time"-- Provided by publisher.

English

April 25, 2024

Includes bibliographical references and index.