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The splendid feast of reason /
Jonathan Singer's witty, erudite book is a celebration of rationality and an urgent call to make use of intelligence and reason to better cope with human problems. Emphasizing the importance of rationality's greatest achievement, modern science, Singer--one of the foremost biologists of ou...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2001.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- PREFACE; 1 Homage to the Square; 2 Making the External World Safe for Humanity: The Roles of Myth and Religion; 3 Deciphering the Real World; 4 Modern Biology and the Response to Vitalism; 5 Biological Repair and the Realities of Human Life, Aging, and Death; 6 Behavior and the Genes; 7 Life's Ancient Strategies for Survival; 8 The Future Prospects of Biology; 9 Off with the Old Ideas, On with the New; 10 Our Dual Worlds: The Concept of Complementarity; 11 Rationalists in an Irrational World; Appendix A: The Structures and Functions of Protein Molecules; Appendix B: The Genetic Code.