What is Death? A Scientist Looks at the Cycle of Life
Language: English
Published by John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2002
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Hardcover in Near-Fine condition in a near-fine dust jacket, 8vo, pages: 255. White paper-covered boards with spine titles in gold, black-and-white illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. First printing. Very light soiling, block edges slightly tanned; nice clean copy. Bookseller accession no.: 18343.
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- Title
- What is Death? A Scientist Looks at the Cycle of Life
- Author
- Volk, Tyler
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons, New York
- Publication year
- 2002
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0471375446
- ISBN 13
- 9780471375449
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
A Scientist Looks at the Cycle of Life
Answering the question "What is death?" by focusing on the individual is blinkered. It restricts attention to a narrow zone around the individual body of a creature. Instead, how expansive is the answer we receive when we look at the context of death within the biosphere. Death now is tied to all of life, via the atmosphere and ocean. Death supports the awesome biological enterprise of making abundant the green and squiggly life. Talk about death has headed us straight into a contemplation of life, not only individual life, but big life, life on a global scale. Death and life are neatly dovetailed by the supreme cabinetmaker of evolution. Again, the crucial feature is not the death of any one creature per se, but rather what is done with death. To reach into the meaning of death, we must reach out into the wider context of which death is a part.
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