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Execellent. Darn smart girl. Life sciences are a huge topic. - Edit 1

Before modification by Sports_Gambler at 15/04/2017 05:44:22 PM

Of course the life sciences go beyond Anatomy/Physiology/Medicine.

At a higher level of complexity you have cognitive science (including neuroscience), a major field in itself.

And next level up, on a really large scale, life sciences get into the theory of evolution, ecology and even the earth- or geo-sciences.

Really, the definition of 'life' itself is quite debatable. Personally, I take a very general, open-ended definition, and I think that it's any complex system where energy is flowing through it and the system is maintaining a homeostatic state.

So this would include even things such a weather system, or even tectonic plate movements. You just can't separate life from the wider ecological and geological environment - for instance a 'thunder-storm' could be considered 'alive' by my definition (the 'gaia' hypothesis).


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