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Name: The Lives of a Cell

Full name: The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher

Author: Lewis Thomas
Year: 1974
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Science, Essays, Philosophy

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9780553245622
9780140047431
0553245627
0140047433

Anticipates the kind of writing that will appear more frequently as scientists take on poetic language in order to communicate human truths too mysterious for old-fashioned commonsense. Elegant, suggestive & clarifying, Thomas' humane vision explores the world & examines the complex interdependence of all things. Extending beyond the usual limitations of biological science & into a vast world of hidden relationships, this book explores in personal, poetic essays to topics such as computers, germs, language, music, death, insects & medicine. He writes, "Once you have become permanently startled, as I am, by the realization that we are a social species, you tend to keep an eye out for the pieces of evidence that this is, by & large, good for us."
The lives of a cell
Thoughts for a countdown
On societies as organisms
A fear of pheromones
The music of This sphere
An earnest proposal
The technology of medicine
Vibes
Ceti
The long habit
Antaeus in Manhattan
The MBL
Autonomy
Organelles as organisms
Germs
Your very good health
Social talk
Information
Death in the open
Natural science
Natural man
The Iks
Computers
The planning of science
Some biomythology
On various words
Living language
On probability and possibility
The world's biggest membrane
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This book is part of the "Notes of a Biology Watcher" series. Here are some other books from this series:

"The Medusa and the Snail"
First published in 1974
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