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Beskrivning
A leading developer of Gaia theory introduces a cosmology of death: a comprehensive explanation of the crucial role that death plays in the processes of life in its many forms - biological, sociological, and psychological.
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.
Innehållsförteckning
Introduction: Death Thus Life. PART 1: BRAIN. The Three--Pound Miracle. We Live in Two Different Worlds. The Grateful Self. PART 2: CULTURE. Nobody Just Dies. Managing Terror. Death with Interconnected Dignity. PART 3: BIOSPHERE. Sex and Gatastrophic Senescence. Lifestyle and Life Span. Little Deaths, Big Lives. Life and Death at the Smallest Scale. Conclusion: Eternity's Sunrise. Notes. Bibliography. Acknowledgments. Index.