The Evolution of Death by Stanley Shostak
Death, Shostak claims, is not the end of a linear journey, static and indifferent to change. Instead, he suggests, the current efforts to live longer have profoundly affected our ecological niche, and we are evolving into a long-lived species. Pointing to the artificial means currently used to prolong life, he argues that as we become increasingly juvenilized in our adult life, death will become significantly and evolutionarily delayed. As bodies evolve, the embryos of succeeding generations may be accumulating the stem cells that preserve and restore, providing the resources necessary to live longer and longer. If trends like this continue, Shostak contends, future human beings may join the ranks of other animals with indefinite life spans.-
Nature, Design, and Science
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Reinventing the Wheel
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Evolutionary Epistemology and its Implications for Humankind
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Philosophy of Biology Today
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Evolutionary Ethics
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Scientific Discovery
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Darwin and the Nature of Species
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Images of Development
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Reason, Regulation, and Realism
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A Practical Philosophy for the Life Sciences
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Function, Selection, and Design
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Issues in Evolutionary Ethics
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The Secret Chain
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Beyond the Land Ethic
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How to Build a Theory in Cognitive Science
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Nature in Asian Traditions of Thought
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The Politics of Heredity
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The Animal Rights/Environmental Ethics Debate
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Metaphysics and the Origin of Species
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In Defense of the Land Ethic
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Darwinian Natural Right
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Everybody's Story
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Leaving Us to Wonder
"The author has an innovative, if eccentric, notion about why human longevity has increased so dramatically over the past few centuries" — Quarterly Review of Biology
"Who isn't fascinated by the topic of death, and who wouldn't want to know what scientists can tell us about it? I see Shostak's book as laying the foundation for an intriguing discussion of the relationship between death and morality, social justice and longevity, and aging and the good life." — Robert M. Johnson, author of A Logic Book: Fundamentals of Reasoning, Fifth Edition
Stanley Shostak is Associate Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh and is the author of several books, including Evolution of Sameness and Difference: Perspectives on the Human Genome Project.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780791469460 |
| ISBN 10 | 0791469468 |
| Title | The Evolution of Death |
| Author | Stanley Shostak |
| Series | Suny Series In Philosophy And Biology |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | State University of New York Press |
| Year published | 2006-10-12 |
| Number of pages | 260 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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