The Microcosm Within

Author : William B. Miller, Jr.
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1612332773
Total Pages : 573 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Microcosm Within written by William B. Miller, Jr. and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 2013-12-04 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You are not what you think you are. New research is transforming how we understand ourselves—from a singular 'self' to a vast cooperative, co-dependent and collaborative network of cellular environments and ecologies—a microcosm within. From this unique perspective, a startling revision of evolutionary theory unfurls. Sharply reasoned and certain to be controversial, The Microcosm Within takes its readers on a sweeping scientific journey that reorganizes our thinking about our biological selves, evolution, and extinction. Darwin has dominated evolution for over a century. But many issues remain puzzling—What is the origin of self-sacrifice? Does natural selection really account for evolution? Why is homosexuality commonplace in the animal kingdom? Why were the arms of Tyrannosaurus Rex so small? Why do some species go extinct yet others endure? The Microcosm Within offers intriguing and profound answers by exploring our extraordinary world of cellular consciousness, connections, and collaboration. Current research has unexpectedly revealed that all cells and microbes have elemental cognition and a previously unappreciated capacity for discrimination and awareness. From these faculties, cooperative natural genetic engineering is enabled; and it is from this starting point that biological complexity evolves. The Microcosm Within illuminates how immunological factors dominate evolution and extinction. Biology and evolutionary theory will never be the same.

Author : George Gilder
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 067170592X
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Microcosm written by George Gilder and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1990-07-15 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Simon & Schuster, Microcosm is the provocative national bestseller by the author of Wealth and Poverty. George Gilder's Microcosm is the crystal ball of the next technological era. Leading scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs provide vivid accounts of the latest inventions, revealing how the new international balance of power really lies in information technology.

Author : Carl Zimmer
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307377563
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Microcosm written by Carl Zimmer and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2008-05-06 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Best Book of the YearSeed Magazine • Granta Magazine • The Plain-DealerIn this fascinating and utterly engaging book, Carl Zimmer traces E. coli's pivotal role in the history of biology, from the discovery of DNA to the latest advances in biotechnology. He reveals the many surprising and alarming parallels between E. coli's life and our own. And he describes how E. coli changes in real time, revealing billions of years of history encoded within its genome. E. coli is also the most engineered species on Earth, and as scientists retool this microbe to produce life-saving drugs and clean fuel, they are discovering just how far the definition of life can be stretched.

Author : Philip Elliot Slater
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.8N/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Microcosm written by Philip Elliot Slater and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Microcosm presents an intensive analysis of the formation and development of groups. It relates the structural and emotional processes which emerge in this context to large-scale societies. Using case illustrations from self-analytic groups, the author examines changes in the group's relationship to the leader.

Author : Eugenia De Acton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The microcosm, by the author of 'Vicissitudes in genteel life'. written by Eugenia De Acton and published by . This book was released on 1801 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lynn Margulis
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520340515
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Microcosmos written by Lynn Margulis and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Microcosmos is nothing less than the saga of the life of the planet. Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan have put it all together, literally, in this extraordinary book, which is unlike any treatment of evolution for a general readership that I have encountered before. A fascinating account that we humans should be studying now for clues to our own survival."—From the Foreword by Dr. Lewis Thomas Microcosmos brings together the remarkable discoveries of microbiology in the later decades of the 20th century and the pioneering research of Dr. Margulis to create a vivid new picture of the world that is crucial to our understanding of the future of the planet. Addressed to general readers, the book provides a beautifully written view of evolution as a process based on interdependency and their interconnectedness of all life on the planet.

Author : Robert J. Beyers
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461393442
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ecological Microcosms written by Robert J. Beyers and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ecological Microcosms is a seminal work which reviews the expanding field of enclosed ecosystem research, and relates the results and models of microcosm studies to general concepts in ecology. Microcosms are miniaturized pieces of our biosphere, ranging from streams and lakes to terraria, agroecosystems, and waste systems. The study of these simplified ecosystems is providing provocative insights into ecological principles as well as issues of environmental management and global stability. The authors have used the well-known thermodynamic approach of H.T. Odum and numerous computer simulations. The book also includes an evaluation of alternative mesocosm approaches for the support of humans in space, as well as appendices to aid in the teaching of environmental concepts using student-created microcosms. Ecological Microcosms will be of interest to ecologists, environmental engineers, policy makers and environmental managers, space scientists, and educators. Robert J. Beyers is a Professor of Biology at the University of South Alabama. Howard T. Odum is Graduate Research Professor of Environmental Engineering Sciences at the University of Florida, and was awarded, with Eugene Odum, the 1987 Crafoord Prize in the Biosciences.

Author : Claudio Magris
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446433765
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Microcosms written by Claudio Magris and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-01-11 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amid wars, failed revolutions and the shifting of frontiers, the bit-part players often have the best tales to tell - an astonishing, genre-blurring travelogue from Italian master Claudio Magris. In the tiny borderlands of Istria and Italy, from the forests of Monte Nevoso, to the hidden valleys of the Tyrol, to a Trieste café, Microcosms pieces together a mosaic of stories - comic, tragic, picaresque, nostalgic - from life's minor characters. Their worlds might be small, but they are far from minimalist: in them flashes the great, the meaningful, the unrepeatable significance of every existence.

Author : Rudolph Ackermann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1B/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Microcosm of London written by Rudolph Ackermann and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jr. William B. Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781627341769
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Microcosm Within written by Jr. William B. Miller and published by . This book was released on 2013-11-08 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: