Michael A. Susko

Life's Dynamic Vulnerability, and Its Natural Extravagance (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

This work offers new metaphors to understand our biological world, one more in accord with scientific evidence, more in harmony with preserving our planet, and one which leads us to live fuller lives. First, it recognizes a "natural extravagance," that life often exceeds our expectation in terms of number, variety, beauty, and capacity for change. Our ability to understand and even to categorize life's many manifestations is often beyond our reach. Such extravagance is accompanied by an important second dimension, life's dynamic vulnerability. Life needs to take in outside energy to exist and is acutely sensitive to the environment with its many vagaries. This vulnerability is paradoxically linked to a dynamism which leads to evolutionary novelty. Rather than emphasizing the end state of evolution in terms of "fitness," this work focuses on the vulnerable process of change itself. In re-envisioning biology, more accurate to the onrush of current discoveries, we offer a vision that better protects and preserves our world. The issue at hand is nothing less than our evolutionary future.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: AllrOneofUs Publishing
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781393819899
• Artikelnr.: 59804597

Autorenporträt

With degrees in Philosophy and Psychology, the author has been dedicated to interdisciplinary and synthetic work. Previously, he published in World Futures, "The Fragility of Evolution," which reenvisions evolution around the concept of fragility, and protecting fragile periods of change. Since this work, he offers this updated addition to our evolutionary awareness, focused on life's dynamic vulnerability and its extravagance.