What's the difference between living and non-living things?

For decades, biology has been trying to develop a 'theory of life' which explains how living things first came into being -- how the inanimate become animate. Addy Pross shows that it is chemistry, specifically the new field of systems chemistry, that is at last providing the answers. http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/97...

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