Power, Sex, Suicide

Lane, N. (2005). Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life. Oxford University Press.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

2005

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https://archive.org/details/powersexsuicidem00lanematched

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Primes

• Hierarchical Decomposability
  • The structural insight is robust: a multicellular organism, a software stack, an OSI network protocol, an organizational chart, a Linnean taxonomy, a materials-science substrate, and a mathematical proof all exhibit the same nested-coherence logic, a portability Lane (2005) traces through the convergent evolution of hierarchical structure in biological and artificial complex systems.

    This sourceDevelops the case that eukaryotic cellular complexity — and the nested molecule → organelle → cell → tissue → organism hierarchy that follows — emerged from a single endosymbiotic event; treats hierarchical organization as a convergent structural consequence of bioenergetic constraints across biological and engineered complex systems.

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