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050 00 $aQH501$b.T87 2017
082 00 $a570.1$223
100 1 $aTurner, J. Scott,$d1951-$eauthor.
245 10 $aPurpose and desire :$bwhat makes something "alive" and why modern Darwinism has failed to explain it /$cJ. Scott Turner.
250 $aFirst edition.
264 1 $aNew York, NY :$bHarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers$c[2017]
300 $axvi, 332 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 303-320) and index.
505 0 $aThe 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.
520 $a"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 "purpose and desire" as the keys to a coherent science of life and its evolution. In Purpose and Desire, Turner draws on the work of Claude Bernard, a contemporary of Darwin revered as the founder of experimental physiology. Turner builds on Bernard's "dangerous idea" of homeostasis, a radical proposition for what makes "life" a unique phenomenon in nature. To fully understand life, including its evolution, Turner argues that we must move beyond strictly enforced boundaries of mechanism and materialism to explore living nature as distinctly purposeful and driven by desire."--Jacket flap.
650 0 $aLife (Biology)$xPhilosophy.
650 0 $aLife (Biology)$xPhilosophy$xHistory.
650 0 $aHomeostasis.
650 0 $aEvolution (Biology)
650 7 $aRELIGION / Religion & Science.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aSCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aSCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution.$2bisacsh
650 4 $aSCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution.
650 4 $aSCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology.
650 4 $aRELIGION / Religion & Science.
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