What is Death?: A Scientist Looks at the Cycle of Life

by Tyler Volk

Book Overview

what is death?
A Scientist Looks at the Cycle of Life
Answering the question What is death? by focusing on the individual is blinkered. It restricts attention to a narrow zone around the individual body of a creature. Instead, how expansive is the answer we receive when we look at the context of death within the biosphere. Death now is tied to all of life, via the atmosphere and ocean. Death supports the awesome biological enterprise of making...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471375446
• ISBN13: 9780471375449
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Trade Paper Press
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.6"