Is there a role for fundamental quantum physics in biology or evolution? Quantum physics was invented about a century ago, but in recent years has been undergoing an epistemological exodus, with its ideas and methods expanding from physics into information and communication and associated technologies, but also, re-addressing fundamental questions of biology. This paper will give some background to explain these assertions, and will take up a particular case study showing how quantum mechanisms may be intimately involved in some key biological processes relating to molecular mechanisms of olfaction.

Item Type:	Other Book Chapter
Research Division:	Physical Sciences
Research Group:	Quantum Physics
Research Field:	Quantum Physics not elsewhere classified
Objective Division:	Expanding Knowledge
Objective Group:	Expanding Knowledge
Objective Field:	Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences
UTAS Author:	Jarvis, PD (Dr Peter Jarvis)
ID Code:	80490
Year Published:	2012
Deposited By:	Mathematics and Physics
Deposited On:	2012-11-01
Last Modified:	2012-11-01
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