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2) Purpose and desire: what makes something "alive" and why modern Darwinism has failed to explain it
Author
Publisher
HarperOne
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"SUNY professor, biologist, and physiologist J. Scott Turner argues that modern Darwinism's materialist and mechanistic biases have led to a scientific dead end, unable to define what life is--and only an openness to the qualities of "purpose and desire" will move the field forward. Turner surveys the history of evolutionary thought, identifying "purpose and desire" as the keys to a coherent science of life and its evolution. In Purpose and Desire,...
3) Life: the leading edge of evolutionary biology, genetics, anthropology, and environmental science
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"The newest addition to John Brockman's Edge.org series explores life itself, bringing together the world's leading biologists, geneticists, and evolutionary theorists -- including Richard Dawkins, Edward O. Wilson, J. Craig Venter, and Freeman Dyson. Scientists' understanding of life is progressing more rapidly than at any point in human history, from the extraordinary decoding of DNA to the controversial emergence of biotechnology. Featuring pioneering...
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