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

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

Self and the Phenomenon of Life

system, definition of, 7n
Szostak, J.W. 44, 47

T lymphocytes (T cells), 114t,
119–124
Taoism (Daoism), 324
temporal lobe, anatomical location,
142f, 339
temporal lobe, emotion and, 186,
187
temporal lobe, epilepsy and, 175
temporal lobe, memory and, 210–212
termites, 259, 262, 264–267, 275
thalamic pain syndrome, 158, 199
thalamus, 142f, 170–173, 340
theism, 66
theory-of-mind test, 165, 166
thermodynamics, 11, 26, 31, 56, 60
Tillich, P., 322
Time cells, 228
Tinbergen, N., 162n
transcription, schematic of, 22f
transfer RNA, structure of, 22f, 23f
translation, schematic of, 22f, 23f
tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle, 28, 29f

Urey, H., 37, 56

value, what is, 315
vasopressin, 193, 268, 269
Venter, C., 75n
ventral pallidum, 188–190, 268, 269,
340
ventral tegmental area (VTA),
188–190, 201, 340
ventromedial prefrontal cortex,
anatomical location, 144f, 188f,
191, 339

ventromedial prefrontal cortex, and
amygdala, 187
ventromedial prefrontal cortex, and
ventral tegmental area, 190
ventromedial prefrontal cortex, as
liaison with emotion centers, 189f
ventromedial prefrontal cortex, as
part of reward system, 190
ventromedial prefrontal cortex, in
aesthetic appreciation, 192, 201
ventromedial prefrontal cortex, in
pain and pleasure interpretation,
199
volatile organic compounds (VOC),
97, 98

Wachtershauser, G., 48
Waldrop, M.M., 56
war, as group selection, 291, 292
war, in ants, 287
war, in chimpanzees, 287, 288
war, in humans, 288–292
water paradox, 42
Watts, A., 334n
Wegner, D.M., 251
White, H.B., 70n
Whitehead, A.N., 329
Whitman, W., 93
Wigner, E.P., 299
Wilson, D.S., 266, 278
Wilson, E.O., 8n, 266, 278

Yarus, M., 52, 53

Zayonc, R.B., 198
Zen (Chan), 330, 331n, 334n
Zhuangzi (Chuang-Tzu), 299, 311n,
317

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