LEADER 02346nam 2200457 450 001 9910826478903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-119-57935-X 010 $a1-119-57937-6 010 $a1-119-57932-5 035 $a(CKB)4100000007447507 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5630253 035 $a(OCoLC)1081304314 035 $a(CaSebORM)9781786304247 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5630253 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007447507 100 $a20190204d2019 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aInformation, the hidden side of life /$fCedric Gaucherel, Pierre-Henri Gouyon, Jean-Louis Dessalles 205 $a1st edition 210 1$aLondon, England ;$aHoboken, New Jersey :$cISTE :$cWiley,$d2019. 215 $a1 online resource (219 pages) 311 $a1-78630-424-4 330 $aThis book explores the unity of life. It proposes that the concept of information is the inner essence of what we today call life. The importance of information for our species is obvious. Human beings are highly dependent on information, constantly exchanging with conspecifics. In a less apparent way, we are the product of genetic and epigenetic information which determines our development in a given environment from a fertilized egg to the adult stage. Even less apparent is that information plays a determining role in ecosystems. This observation may include the prebiotic systems in which life emerged. Our claim is that Nature processes information continuously. This means that even beyond living entities, we can see messages and decoding procedures. Nature can be said to send messages to its own future and then to decode them. Nature ?talks? to itself! The systematic organization of messages suggests that, in some respects, we should even speak of the ?languages? of Nature. 606 $aInformation society 615 0$aInformation society. 676 $a303.4833 700 $aGaucherel$b Ce?dric$01615950 702 $aGouyon$b Pierre-Henri$f1953- 702 $aDessalles$b Jean-Louis 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910826478903321 996 $aInformation, the hidden side of life$93946407 997 $aUNINA