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Purpose & Desire
What Makes Something "Alive" and Why Modern Darwinism Has Failed to Explain It
E-bok, 2017
126 kr
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Can biology define life? "[An] ingenious mixture of science and philosophy. . . . highly thought-provoking." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)In this book a professor, biologist, and physiologist argues that modern Darwinism''s materialist and mechanistic biases have led to a scientific dead end, …
Extended Organism
The Physiology of Animal-Built Structures
Häftad, 2002
426 kr
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Can the structures that animals build--from the humble burrows of earthworms to towering termite mounds to the Great Barrier Reef--be said to live? However counterintuitive the idea might first seem, physiological ecologist Scott Turner demonstrates in this book that many animals construct and use …
Tinkerer's Accomplice
How Design Emerges from Life Itself
Häftad, 2010
281 kr
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Most people, when they contemplate the living world, conclude that it is a designed place. So it is jarring when biologists come along and say this is all wrong. What most people see as design, they say--purposeful, directed, even intelligent--is only an illusion, something cooked up in a mind that …
