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Life sciences are among the most interesting fields of contemporary scientific research. The biological world has such a wide range of complexities that any attempt to present it in any depth would take us outside the scope of the present book. In the present chapter, we shall thus only refer to a few specific physical problems in the biological world.
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Chaichian, M., Perez Rojas, H., Tureanu, A. (2021). Physics and Life. In: Basic Concepts in Physics. Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-62313-8_12
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