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April 04, 2021

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Title: Natural Extravagance and the Dynamic Vulnerability of Life
Author : Michael A. Susko
Release Date : January 08, 2020
Genre: Life Sciences,Books,Science & Nature,Biology,
Pages : * pages
Size : 534 KB

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This work offers new metaphors to understand our biological world, one in accord with the scientific evidence, and more in harmony with preserving our planet and leading humans to live a more full life. Firstly, it recognizes the "natural extravagance" of life, that life often exceeds our expectations in terms of number, variety and capacity for change. Our ability to understand and even categorize life's many manifestations is also often beyond our reach. Such extravance is accompanied by an important second dimension,the dynamic vulnerabiltiy of life. Life needs to take in outside energy and to be acutely sensitive to its environment which presents many vagaries. This vulnerability is paradoxically linked to a dynamism which leads to evolutonary novelty. Rather than emphasizing the end state of evolution in terms of "fitness," this work focuses on the vulnerable processes of evolution itself. In re-envisioning biology, more accurate to the onrush of discoveries, we offer a vision that better protects and preserves our world. The issue at hand is nothing less than our own evolutionary future.