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Life: a modern invention

By Davide , Tarizzo

Book information

Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Year
2018
ISBN
9780816691593, 9780816691623, 9781452958835, 1452958831
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1282555 bytes)
Series
Posthumanities 44
Pages
\254
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Life

Description

The word 'biology' was first used to describe the scientific study of life in 1802, and as Davide Tarizzo demonstrates, our understanding of what being alive means is an equally recent invention. Circumventing tired debates about the validity of science and the truth of Darwinian evolution, Tarizzo instead envisions a profound paradigm shift in philosophical and scientific concepts of biological life.

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