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Author | : John S. Wilkins |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0520271394 |
In this comprehensive work, John S. Wilkins traces the history of the idea of "species" from antiquity to today, providing a new perspective on the relationship between philosophical and biological approaches.--[book cover].
Author | : Torill Kornfeldt |
Publisher | : Scribe Publications |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2018-07-02 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1925693007 |
What does a mammoth smell like? Do dinosaurs bob their heads as they walk, like today’s birds? Do aurochs low like cows? You may soon find out. From the Siberian permafrost to balmy California, scientists across the globe are working to resurrect all kinds of extinct animals, from ones that just left us to those that have been gone for many thousands of years. Their tools in this hunt are both fossils and cutting-edge genetic technologies. Some of these scientists are driven by sheer curiosity; others view the lost species as a powerful weapon in the fight to preserve rapidly changing ecosystems. It seems certain that these animals will walk the earth again, but what world will that give us? And is any of this a good idea? Science journalist Torill Kornfeldt travelled the world to meet the men and women working to bring these animals back from the dead. Along the way, she has seen the mammoth that has been frozen for 20,000 years, and visited the places where these furry giants will live again.
Author | : Dietmar Dath |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780998777092 |
After mankind's near-extermination, a kingdom of animals harnessing biotechnology wages a multi-planetary war against a new form of artificial intelligence.
Author | : John S. Wilkins |
Publisher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 443 |
Release | : 2018-01-29 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1351677993 |
Over time the complex idea of "species" has evolved, yet its meaning is far from resolved. This comprehensive work is a fresh look at an idea central to the field of biology by tracing its history from antiquity to today. Species is a benchmark exploration and clarification of a concept fundamental to the past, present, and future of the natural sciences. In this edition, a section is added on the debate over species since the time of the New Synthesis, and brings the book up to date. A section on recent philosophical debates over species has also been added. This edition is better suited non-specialists in philosophy, so that it will be of greater use for scientists wishing to understand how the notion came to be that living organisms form species. Key Selling Features: Covers the philosophical and historical development of the concept of "species" Documents that variation was recognized by pre-Darwinian scholars Includes a section on the debates since the time of the New Synthesis Better suited to non-philosophers
Author | : Clive Hamilton |
Publisher | : Earthscan |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1849710813 |
First Published in 2010. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author | : Robert Andrew Wilson |
Publisher | : Bradford Books |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9780262232012 |
Drawing on the perspectives of prominent researchers from anthropology, botany, develop- mental psychology, the philosophy of biology and science, protoevolutionary biology and the philosophy of biology and science, protozoology, and zoology, provides some focus on general claims about and views of species. DLC: Species--Philosophy.
Author | : Michael Tennesen |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2015-03-17 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1451677510 |
Delving into the history of the planet and based on reports and interviews with scientists, a science writer--traveling to rain forests, canyons, craters, and caves all over the world to explore the potential winners and losers of the next era of evolution--describes what life on earth could look like after the next mass extinction.
Author | : David N. Stamos |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780739107782 |
In this provocative work, David N. Stamos tackles the problem of determining exactly what a biological species is: in short, whether species are real and the nature of their reality. Although many have written on this topic, The Species Problem is the only comprehensive single-authored book on this central concern of biology. Stamos critically considers the evolution of the three major contemporary views of species: species nominalism, species as classes, and species as individuals. Finally, he develops his own solution to the species problem, a solution aimed at providing a universal species concept worthy of the Modern Synthesis. This book will be of interest to philosophers of biology and of science in general, to historians of biology, and to biologists concerned with one of the most significant (and practical) conceptual issues in their field.
Author | : Todd Davis |
Publisher | : MSU Press |
Total Pages | : 123 |
Release | : 2019-01-01 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1628953608 |
In his sixth book of poetry, Todd Davis, who Harvard Review declares is “unflinchingly candid and enduringly compassionate,” confesses that “it’s hard to hide my love for the pleasures of the earth.” In poems both achingly real and stunningly new, he ushers the reader into a consideration of the green world and our uncertain place in it. As he writes in “Dead Letter to James Wright,” “You said / you’d wasted your life. / I’m still not sure / what species I am.” To that end, Native Species explores what happens to us—to all of us, bear, deer, mink, trout, moose, girl, boy, woman, man—when we die, and what happens to the soul as it faces extinction—if it “migrates into the lives of other creatures, becomes a fox or frog, an ant in a colony serving a queen, a red salamander entering a pond before it freezes.” He wonders, too, “How many new beginnings are we granted?” It’s a beautiful question, and it freights, simultaneously, possibility and pain. These are the verses of a poet maturing into a new level of thinking, full of tenderness and love for the home that carries us all.
Author | : Barbara Barg |
Publisher | : Semiotext(e) Native Agents |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : |
Collects stories, manifestos, rants and songs by Homer Erotic lead singer/poet/politico Barbara Barg. The Origin of the Species collects stories, manifestos, rants and songs by Homer Erotic lead singer/poet/politico Barbara Barg. Raised as the only Jew in her Arkansas town in the mid-1960s, Barg's subject matter ranges from Nietzsche to Lithuanian pogroms to shoplifting and cocktail-waitressing to the activities of the Ku Klux Klan in her town. What do we belong toSoul or chromosome? Boundaries and bloodshedEarth seems so far from home