The Resource Death on Earth : adventures in evolution and mortality, Jules Howard
Death on Earth : adventures in evolution and mortality, Jules Howard
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- Summary
- POPULAR SCIENCE. As you read these words Planet Earth teems with trillions of life-forms, each going about their own business; eating, reproducing, thriving ...Yet the life of almost every single entity draws nearer and nearer to certain death. Why? Why is death such a universal companion to life on Earth? Why haven't animals evolved to break free of its shackles? In this ground-breaking exploration of death, Jules Howard attempts to shed evolutionary light on this, one of our biggest and most unshakeable taboos. Encountering some of the world's oldest animals, and meeting the scientists attempting to unravel their mysteries, Jules also comes face-to-face with evolution's outliers; the animals that may one day avoid death altogether. Written in his familiar engaging and humorous style, Jules's journey inevitably ends with our own fate: can we ever become immortal? And even if we could, would we really want to?
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 288 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Note
- Includes index
- Contents
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- Part 1. This is a dead frog. Life and death in the universe ; Senescence and what waits for the lucky few ; Fear and loathing in Birchwood ; Free radicals and the secrets within ; This is a dead frog
- Part 2. The experimental pig phase. The circus under the tent ; Sex and death : the contract killer ; Coffee with the widow-maker ; Suicide, snowy owls and the executioner inside ; This is not a sheep ; The grotto salamander and the guano ; The horrid ground-weaver ; Dark matters
- Part 3. Journey to the end of the shitatite. Bring out your dead ants ; Mourning has broken ; Who wants to live forever? ; No, this is a dead frog
- Epilogue: The meaning of the loa loa
- Isbn
- 9781472915085
- Label
- Death on Earth : adventures in evolution and mortality
- Title
- Death on Earth
- Title remainder
- adventures in evolution and mortality
- Statement of responsibility
- Jules Howard
- Title variation
- Adventures in evolution and mortality
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- POPULAR SCIENCE. As you read these words Planet Earth teems with trillions of life-forms, each going about their own business; eating, reproducing, thriving ...Yet the life of almost every single entity draws nearer and nearer to certain death. Why? Why is death such a universal companion to life on Earth? Why haven't animals evolved to break free of its shackles? In this ground-breaking exploration of death, Jules Howard attempts to shed evolutionary light on this, one of our biggest and most unshakeable taboos. Encountering some of the world's oldest animals, and meeting the scientists attempting to unravel their mysteries, Jules also comes face-to-face with evolution's outliers; the animals that may one day avoid death altogether. Written in his familiar engaging and humorous style, Jules's journey inevitably ends with our own fate: can we ever become immortal? And even if we could, would we really want to?
- Cataloging source
- WWBK
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Howard, Jules
- Dewey number
- 576.8
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- plates
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Series statement
- Bloomsbury Sigma series
- Series volume
- book twelve
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Death
- Evolution (Biology)
- Death (Biology)
- Mortality
- Natural selection
- Human evolution
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Death on Earth : adventures in evolution and mortality, Jules Howard
- Note
- Includes index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
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- text
- still image
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- rdacontent
- Contents
- Part 1. This is a dead frog. Life and death in the universe ; Senescence and what waits for the lucky few ; Fear and loathing in Birchwood ; Free radicals and the secrets within ; This is a dead frog -- Part 2. The experimental pig phase. The circus under the tent ; Sex and death : the contract killer ; Coffee with the widow-maker ; Suicide, snowy owls and the executioner inside ; This is not a sheep ; The grotto salamander and the guano ; The horrid ground-weaver ; Dark matters -- Part 3. Journey to the end of the shitatite. Bring out your dead ants ; Mourning has broken ; Who wants to live forever? ; No, this is a dead frog -- Epilogue: The meaning of the loa loa
- Control code
- 000057302446
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Extent
- 288 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781472915085
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other control number
- 40026118978
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some colour)
- System control number
- (OCoLC)918876005
- Label
- Death on Earth : adventures in evolution and mortality, Jules Howard
- Note
- Includes index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
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- text
- still image
- Content type code
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- txt
- sti
- Content type MARC source
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- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Part 1. This is a dead frog. Life and death in the universe ; Senescence and what waits for the lucky few ; Fear and loathing in Birchwood ; Free radicals and the secrets within ; This is a dead frog -- Part 2. The experimental pig phase. The circus under the tent ; Sex and death : the contract killer ; Coffee with the widow-maker ; Suicide, snowy owls and the executioner inside ; This is not a sheep ; The grotto salamander and the guano ; The horrid ground-weaver ; Dark matters -- Part 3. Journey to the end of the shitatite. Bring out your dead ants ; Mourning has broken ; Who wants to live forever? ; No, this is a dead frog -- Epilogue: The meaning of the loa loa
- Control code
- 000057302446
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Extent
- 288 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781472915085
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other control number
- 40026118978
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some colour)
- System control number
- (OCoLC)918876005
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