Jacques Neirynck on Vitalism: Abandoned and Eclipsed (ISBN 3540875220)

Jacques Neirynck writes in "Your Brain and Your Self: What You Need to Know" (2008; ISBN 3540875220):

"the end of vitalism [...] for a long time it was believed that living matter was essentially different from inanimate matter in that is [sp., 'it'] was inhabited by a vital principle [...] but with discoveries about DNA [...] and the more recent elucidation of the human genome, the idea was eclipsed [...] we have abandoned the vitalist theory in the scientific world [...] life [...] has a physical reality [p.105...] the organization of a molecule of DNA alone explains the mysteries of living matter [...] life is an emergent property of matter."

Note: tell that to naturopathy!