What is Death?
A Scientist Looks at the Cycle of Life
what is death?A Scientist Looks at the Cycle of LifeAnswering 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 doveta…
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- ISBN: 978-0-470-25242-0
- EAN: 9780470252420
- Produktnummer: 20428219
- Verlag: Turner Publishing Company
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'298 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
Über den Autor
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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