What is Death?: A Scientist Looks at the Cycle of Life - Couverture rigide

Volk, Tyler

 
9780471375449: What is Death?: A Scientist Looks at the Cycle of Life
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0471375446 ISBN 13 : 9780471375449
Editeur : John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2002

Synopsis

what is death?
A Scientist Looks at the Cycle of Life
Answering the question ""What is death?"" by focusing on the individual is blinkered. It restricts attention to a narrow zone around the individual body of a creature. Instead, how expansive is the answer we receive when we look at the context of death within the biosphere. Death now is tied to all of life, via the atmosphere and ocean. Death supports the awesome biological enterprise of making abundant the green and squiggly life. Talk about death has headed us straight into a contemplation of life, not only individual life, but big life, life on a global scale. Death and life are neatly dovetailed by the supreme cabinetmaker of evolution. Again, the crucial feature is not the death of any one creature per se, but rather what is done with death. To reach into the meaning of death, we must reach out into the wider context of which death is a part.

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À propos de l?auteur

TYLER VOLK, Ph.D., is Associate Professor in the Department of Biology at New York University. He is the acclaimed author of Metapatterns: Across Space, Time, and Mind and Gaia's Body: Toward a Physiology of Earth.

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Éditeur
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Date d'édition
2002
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0471375446
ISBN 13 
9780471375449
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
256
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