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Author: Richard Krooth Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 0761869239 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 394
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This book describes the reasons humankind may be facing its last moments on Planet Earth. Darwin marked the path of species evolution, modification, and extinction. Following Darwin’s trajectory of evolution, the author reveals how human-made technologies have had a devastating impact on Earth’s biosphere, signaling the continuing disappearance of landscapes and the decline of species life.
Author: Richard Krooth Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 0761869239 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 394
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This book describes the reasons humankind may be facing its last moments on Planet Earth. Darwin marked the path of species evolution, modification, and extinction. Following Darwin’s trajectory of evolution, the author reveals how human-made technologies have had a devastating impact on Earth’s biosphere, signaling the continuing disappearance of landscapes and the decline of species life.
Author: Yehezkel Dror Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1000055590 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 203
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Humanity must steer its evolution. As human knowledge moves a step ahead of Darwin’s theories, this book presents the emergence of human-made meta-evolution shaping our alternative futures. This novel process poses fateful challenges to humanity, which require regulation of emerging science and technology which may endanger the future of our species. However, to do so successfully, a novel ‘humanity-craft’ has to be developed; main ideologies and institutions need redesign; national sovereignty has to be limited; a decisive global regime becomes essential; some revaluation of widely accepted norms becomes essential; and a novel type of political leader, based on merit in addition to public support, is urgently needed. Taking into account the strength of nationalism and vested interests, it may well be that only catastrophes will teach humanity to metamorphose into a novel epoch without too high transition costs. But initial steps, such as United Nation reforms, are urgent in order to contain calamities and may soon become feasible. Being both interdisciplinary and based on personal experience of the author, this book adds up to a novel paradigm on steering human evolution. It will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of modern history, evolution sciences, future studies, political science, philosophy of action, and science and technology. It will also be of wide appeal to the general reader anxious about the future of life on Earth. Comments on the Corona pandemic add to the book’s concrete significance.
Author: Miro Roman Publisher: Birkhäuser ISBN: 3035624054 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 528
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How does coding change the way we think about architecture? This question opens up an important research perspective. In this book, Miro Roman and his AI Alice_ch3n81 develop a playful scenario in which they propose coding as the new literacy of information. They convey knowledge in the form of a project model that links the fields of architecture and information through two interwoven narrative strands in an “infinite flow” of real books. Focusing on the intersection of information technology and architectural formulation, the authors create an evolving intellectual reflection on digital architecture and computer science.
Author: Tracy Kiger Publisher: Dorrance Publishing Co. Inc. ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 322
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Darwin Chambers and the Children of Gaia By: Tracy Kiger Imagine if all the myths, legends and fairy tales were all based on real individuals. These people have a fantastic connection to our world and possess great powers based on science, not magic. They can live for hundreds of years and currently have their own culture hidden from our own. This fascinating story explores new worlds full of secrets, power, and lust.
Author: Fries Kenny Publisher: Da Capo Press, Incorporated ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 228
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A searing, imaginative memoir that pairs two stories, the author's budding self-realization and the race to formulate the theory of evolution.
Author: Jeremy Taylor Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 022605991X Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 261
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This exploration of cutting-edge evolutionary medicine and how our body’s performance is shaped by its past “covers fascinating territory” (Publishers Weekly). We think of medical science and doctors as focused on treating conditions—whether it’s a cough or an aching back. But the sicknesses and complaints that cause us to seek medical attention actually have deeper origins than the superficial germs and behaviors we regularly fault. In fact, as Jeremy Taylor shows in Body by Darwin, we can trace the roots of many medical conditions through our evolutionary history, revealing what has made us susceptible to certain illnesses and ailments over time and how we can use that knowledge to help treat or prevent problems in the future. In Body by Darwin, Taylor examines the evolutionary origins of some of our most common and serious health issues. To begin, he looks at the hygiene hypothesis, which argues that our obsession with anti-bacterial cleanliness, particularly at a young age, may be making us more vulnerable to autoimmune and allergic diseases. He also discusses diseases of the eye, the medical consequences of bipedalism as they relate to all those aches and pains in our backs and knees, the rise of Alzheimer’s disease, and how cancers become so malignant that they kill us despite the toxic chemotherapy we throw at them. Taylor explains why it helps to think about heart disease in relation to the demands of an ever-growing, dense, muscular pump that requires increasing amounts of nutrients, and he discusses how walking upright and giving birth to ever larger babies led to a problematic compromise in the design of the female spine and pelvis. Throughout, he not only explores the impact of evolution on human form and function, but integrates science with stories from actual patients and doctors, closely examining the implications for our health. “Seven vivid true stories dramatically describing patients and their doctors discovering evolutionary explanations for diseases. More than just the perfect book club book, it advances the field of evolutionary medicine.” —Randolph M. Nesse, coauthor of Why We Get Sick
Author: Randal Keynes Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101215712 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 526
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In a chest of drawers bequeathed by his grandmother, author Randal Keynes discovered the writing case of Charles and Emma Darwin’s beloved daughter Annie Darwin, who died at the age of ten. He also found the notes Darwin kept throughout Annie's illness, the eulogy he delivered at her funeral—and provocative new insights into Darwin’s views on nature, evolution, and the human condition. In Darwin, His Daughter & Human Evolution, Keynes shows that Darwin was not "a cold intellect with no place for love in his famous 'struggle for existence,' [but]...a man of uncommon warmth" (Scientific American). Creation: The True Story of Charles Darwin is now a major motion picture and the movie tie-in paperback is also available from Riverhead Books.
Author: John Campbell Publisher: Sheridan House, Inc. ISBN: 9781574090253 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 294
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Skipper Campbell realized that his planned route along the South American coast and around Cape Horn would closely follow that taken by Charles Darwin on his historic journey aboard the BEAGLE. He decided to compare his impressions of those places today with the descriptions and observations made by Darwin over 150 years earlier.
Author: Paul H Barrett Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1315477645 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 464
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The first volume in a 29-volume set which contain all Charles Darwin's published works. Darwin was one of the most influential figures of the 19th century. His work remains a central subject of study in the history of ideas, the history of science, zoology, botany, geology and evolution.
Author: Richard Krooth
Author: Richard Krooth
Author: Yehezkel Dror
Author: Miro Roman
Author: Tracy Kiger
Author: Fries Kenny
Author: Jeremy Taylor
Author: Charles Darwin
Author: Randal Keynes
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Author: Paul H Barrett