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What is Death?: A Scientist Looks at the Cycle of Life
What is Death?: A Scientist Looks at the Cycle of Life
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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.
Author: Tyler Volk
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 03/19/2002
Pages: 255
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 9.58h x 6.34w x 0.92d
ISBN: 9780471375449
Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2002 pg. 303
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.
Author: Tyler Volk
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 03/19/2002
Pages: 255
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 9.58h x 6.34w x 0.92d
ISBN: 9780471375449
Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2002 pg. 303
About the Author
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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