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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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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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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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A world in a shell :snail stories for a time of extinctions
"While snails rarely get a mention in most discussions of our sixth mass extinction event, the sad reality is that they are disappearing more rapidly than any other species, and Hawai'i's snails are amongst the hardest hit. Following snail trails through the islands' forests, laboratories, museums, and even a military training facility, this book explores processes of ecological and cultural lo…
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- 0262370255
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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 neurocognitive theory of dreaming :the where, how, when, what, and why of…
"An up-to-date synthesis of the neurocognitive theory of dreaming as presented by its founder"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Properties of life :toward a theory of organismic biology
"Presents a synthesis of specific properties of living organisms as they can be described by modern research in order to generate a coherent theory of life"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262375399
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After eating :metabolizing the arts
"After Eating explores the emerging field of metabolic arts, practices which engage the materials and methodologies of not only food and ingestion but also digestion and metabolism"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262374712
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The brain in motion :from microcircuits to global brain function
"A complete and authoritative of the neural control of movement in animals ranging from lampreys to humans, including the roles of the cortex and basal ganglia, and will also cover motor disorders"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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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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