Self And The Phenomenon Of Life: A Biologist Examines Life From Molecules To Humanity

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“9x6” b2726 Self and the Phenomenon of Life: A Biologist Examines Life from Molecules to Humanity

Descartes, R., 182, 300, 311n, 324

DNA replication, 26

DNA structure, 21

dopamine, 134t, 188, 193, 194f, 201,

268, 337f

dopaminergic mesolimbic pathway,

189f, 190

drosophila memory, 147, 224

Eccles, J.C., 313n

Edelman, G.M., 172, 313

Eigen, M., 58

Einstein, A. 66, 231, 324, 327,

329

electro-encephalography (EEG),

168-170

electron transport chain, 28, 29f

emergence, 68, 302, 303

emotion, appraisal of, 194, 195

emotion, centers of, 186–192

emotion, definition of, 181, 204n

emotion, expression of, 181

emotion, mechanism of, 196, 197

emotion, sensation of, 192

emotion, sympathetic discharge

and, 186, 195, 197

emotions, echelon of, 202t

empathy, 272, 273

endorphin, 160n

enkephalin, 190

entorhinal cortex, 144, 211–213, 227,

228, 339

epigenetics, 64, 277

epinephrine, 185f, 337f

ethylene, 98, 104

eukaryotes, 80

eusociality, 265

excitatory post-synaptic potential

(EPSP), 132, 225

exteroception, 164, 192, 196

extremophiles, 80

fantasy, 216, 217

feeling, definition of, 181, 204n

Feng, Y. 319, 331n

Ferris, J.P., 71n

fight-or-flight, 186

flavonoids, 103

formamide, 36t, 38t, 42, 48, 49

Franklin, B. 329

Franks, N. 246

free will, as selector, 245

free will, chances and, 242, 244

free will, definition of, 239

free will, implicit cause of, 238, 240

free will, mind and, 244–246

free will, physiological basis of,

247–249

Freud, S., 157, 207n, 325

frontal lobe, 141f, 142f, 191, 252, 339

Fukushima nuclear disaster, 274

gamma amino-butyric acid (GABA),

134t, 337f

Gauguin, P., 15

Gazzaniga, M.S., 161n

genetic code, origin of, 25t, 51–54

genetic drift, 304

Gilbert, W., 70n

glia, 135

glutamic acid, 25, 35, 39, 52, 134t,

226f, 337f

glycine, 25, 35–37, 39, 50, 52, 134,

337f

glycolysis, 26, 28, 29f

Gould, S.J., 272, 313n

grid cells, 227

habituation, 136, 139, 167, 213,

220–222, 224

Haldane, J.B.S., 265

Hamilton, A., 179

Hamilton, W.D., 265, 266

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