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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Prog Biophys Mol Biol. 2017 Jul 22;131:288–297. doi: 10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2017.07.013

Fig. 1. Eastern versus Western Philosophy of Life.

Fig. 1

The Eastern perspective on the origins and evolution of life is depicted on the left. The Western perspective is depicted on the right. FPP= First Principles of Physiology (Torday and Rehan, 2012); Gaia refers to the theory that the Earth is an organic whole.