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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Turner, J. Scott, 1951- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017]
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.