Tyler Volk

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

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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… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-0-471-37544-9
EAN: 9780471375449
Produktnummer: 15895081
Verlag: Wiley
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
Seitenangabe: 255 S.
Masse: H24.3 cm x B16.1 cm x D2.3 cm 490 g
Gewicht: 490

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.