Dorion Sagan - Böcker

This title is back in print with a revised preface. "Microcosmos" brings together the remarkable discoveries of microbiology of the past two decades and the pioneering research of Dr. Margulis to create a vivid new picture of the world t...

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How do new species evolve? Although Darwin identified inherited variation as the creative force in evolution, he never formally speculated where it comes from. His successors thought that new species arise from the gradual accumulation of random m...

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Scientists, theologians, and philosophers have all sought to answer the questions of why we are here and where we are going. Finding this natural basis of life has proved elusive, but in the eloquent and creative Into the Cool, Eric D. Schneider a...

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Scientists, theologians, and philosophers have all sought to answer the questions of why we are here and where we are going. Finding this natural basis of life has proved elusive, but in the eloquent and creative Into the Cool, Eric D. Schneider a...

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A fascinating and detailed examination of the evolutionand occasional devolutionof sexuality in microorganisms and more complex forms of life. Margulis and Sagan trace sex from its inauspicious beginnings in bacteria threatened by ultraviolet radi...

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"Lynn Margulis is one of the most successful synthetic thinkers in modern biology. This collection of her work, enhanced by essays co-authored with Dorion Sagan, is a welcome introduction to the full breadth of her many contributions." E...

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Half a century ago, before the discovery of DNA, the Austrian physicist and philosopher Erwin Schrodinger inspired a generation of scientists by rephrasing the fascinating philosophical question: What is life? Using their expansive understanding o...

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In the pursuit of knowledge, Dorion Sagan argues in this dazzlingly eclectic, rigorously crafted, and deliciously witty collection of essays, scientific authoritarianism and philosophical obscurantism are equally formidable obstacles to discovery....

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A revolutionary examination of why we age, what it means for our health, and how we just might be able to fight it. In Cracking the Aging Code , theoretical biologist Josh Mitteldorf and award-winning writer and ecological philosopher Dorion Sagan...

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A revolutionary examination of why we age, what it means for our health, and how we just might be able to fight it.In Cracking the Aging Code, theoretical biologist Josh Mitteldorf and award-winning writer and ecological philosopher Dorion Sagan r...

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This enticing collection is as devoted to the profound power of figures of speech as any oration of old Hellas. Metaphor reigns as we encounter the identification of our Earth as a Single, integrative organism, a tale told in image and passion. Th...

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Using logic, common sense, philosophy, ethics, history, and science, the author rebuts every argument that claims to "e;prove"e; the existence of God.IS THERE REALLY A GOD?OR DOES GOD EXIST ONLY IN OUR HEADS?IS THE BIBLE TRULY GOD'S WORD?O...

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A groundbreaking interpretation of evolution as the work of Nature's intelligence *; Refutes the orthodox view of evolution as a mindless process driven by chance *; Explains why context is more important than mutation in evolutionary innovation *...

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Tireless, controversial, and hugely inspirational to those who knew her or encountered her work, Lynn Margulis was a scientist whose intellectual energy and interests knew no bounds. Best known for her work on the origins of eukaryotic cells, the ...

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En este caleidoscópico y brillante libro, una multiplicidad de campos de la ciencia ?entre ellos la genética, la neurobiologÿa, la astrofÿsica o la termodinámica? se dan cita con la indagación filosófica. Siguiendo la estela de su padre, Ca...

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