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What If We Don't Die? The Morality of Immortality
This book deals with the very real possibility of earthly immortality and the human and societal implications of such immortality, including whether it is desirable. It looks at what makes immortality appear so attractive and at the possibility that we would be better served with longer lives and the freedom to terminate our lives at the time when life has given us all the joy, inspiration a…
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- 978-3-319-19093-8
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A Darwinian survival guide :hope for the twenty-first century
"Guided by the Four Laws of Biotics, the book details how technological humanity should interact with the biosphere and each other in accordance with Darwinian principles, which illuminate a middle ground between unacceptable apocalypse or unattainable utopia, with two hopeful options: alter our behavior now at great expense based on Darwinian principles and extend current civilization, or fail…
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The evolution of techniques :rigidity and flexibility in use, transmission, a…
A novel, interdisciplinary exploration of the relative contributions of rigidity and flexibility in the adoption, maintenance, and evolution of technical traditions. Techniques can either be used in rigid, stereotypical ways or in flexibly adaptive ways, or in some combination of the two. The Evolution of Techniques , edited by Mathieu Charbonneau, addresses the impacts of both flexibility and …
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- 9780262378390
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Imperfection :a natural history
Originally published: Imperfezione: Una storia naturale. Milano : Raffaello Cortina editore, 2019."A history of and a hymn to the diversities of living beings, to understand that imperfection is promise of change and fuel of creativity"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262371667
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A gallery of recuperation
"A brutal takedown of post-'68 French intellectuals and an analysis of how revolutionary thought gets appropriated, diluted, and assimilated by the very society it opposes"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262375269
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Evolution "on purpose" :teleonomy in living systems
"Explores the theoretical implications of teleonomy, an evolved purposeness exhibited by living systems, and how it has shaped natural selection and biological complexity"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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The evolution of agency :behavioral organization from lizards to humans
"A scientific analysis of agency in the real world-which animal types have it and which don't-written by the top researcher in the field"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262370204
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From signal to symbol :the evolution of language
"An original argument to explain the "language gap" between humans and other primates, drawing on research from evolutionary biology, paleobiology, and archaeology"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262366038
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Evolvability :a unifying concept in evolutionary biology?
"The present volume represents the outcome of a workshop on Evolvability hosted in 2019 - 2020 by the Center of Advanced Study (CAS) at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in Oslo. This book gathers the efforts of many of the people that were instrumental in the development of the evolvability concept in different fields to synthesize what we have learned about evolvability during the …
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Inequality :a genetic history
"New genomic studies on ancient remains are unveiling different forms of inequality that were prevalent in the past and have shaped the genomes of humankind"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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