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Título: Dreamers, Visionaries, and Revolutionaries in the Life Sciences Condición: Nuevo Autor: Michael R. Dietrich Contribuyente: Oren Harman (Edited by), Michael R. Dietrich (Edited by) Formato: Tapa blanda EAN: 9780226569901 ISBN: 9780226569901 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Género: Science Nature & Math Tema: Biography Fecha de publicación: 23/07/2018 Description: What are the conditions that foster true novelty and allow visionaries to set their eyes on unknown horizons? What have been the challenges that have spawned new innovations, and how have they shaped modern biology? In Dreamers, Visionaries, and Revolutionaries in the Life Sciences, editors Oren Harman and Michael R. Dietrich explore these questions through the lives of eighteen exemplary biologists who had grand and often radical ideas that went far beyond the run-of-the-mill science of their peers. From the Frenchman Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, who coined the word "biology" in the early nineteenth century, to the American James Lovelock, for whom the Earth is a living, breathing organism, these dreamers innovated in ways that forced their contemporaries to reexamine comfortable truths. With this collection readers will follow Jane Goodall into the hidden world of apes in African jungles and Francis Crick as he attacks the problem of consciousness. Join Mary Lasker on her campaign to conquer cancer and follow geneticist George Church as he dreams of bringing back woolly mammoths and Neanderthals. In these lives and the many others featured in these pages, we discover visions that were sometimes fantastical, quixotic, and even threatening and destabilizing, but always a challenge to the status quo. Idioma: inglés País/Región de fabricación: US Altura del artículo: 229mm Longitud del artículo: 152mm Año de publicación: 2018 ¿Falta información?
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