Purpose & desire : what makes something "alive" and why modern Darwinism has failed to explain it /...
Purpose & desire : what makes something "alive" and why modern Darwinism has failed to explain it /...
Purpose & desire : what makes something "alive" and why modern Darwinism has failed to explain it / J. Scott Turner.
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Publisher
New York, NY : HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers [2017]
Alternative title
Call Numbers
G 2018/0247
Record Identifier
MMS ID
Language
English
Physical Description
Physical content
xvi, 332 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
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, an...
Publication information
Publisher
New York, NY : HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers [2017]
Edition
First edition.
Date Published
[2017]
Subjects
More information
Scope and Contents
Summary
"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 "p...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Purpose & desire : what makes something "alive" and why modern Darwinism has failed to explain it / J. Scott Turner.
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-318) and index.
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
G 2018/0247
Record Identifier
74VKVGEvwwey
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVGEvwwey
Other Identifiers
ISBN
9780062651563
DDC
570.1
MMS ID
991024153615402626
