Purpose & desire : what makes something "alive" and why modern Darwinism has failed to explain it /
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. Tur...
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New York :
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,
[2017]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- The pony under the tree
- Biology's second law
- Many little lives
- A clockwork homeostasis
- A mad dream
- The barrier that wasn't
- The reverse Pinocchio
- A multiplicity of memory
- One is the friendliest number
- The hand of whatever
- Plato Street
- Epilogue : Evolution, purpose, and desire.