Evolution Extended: Biological Debates on the Meaning of Life
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Evolution Extended: Biological Debates on the Meaning of Life

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As in her first well-received anthology, From Gaia to Selfish Genes, Connie Barlow has woven selections from the writings of biologists and philosophers into a unified whole. Once again she explores a range of viewpoints as she invites readers to formulate their own opinions. Editorial passages provide the historical context and introduce the debates that have ensued whenever evolutionary biology has been extended into the realm of meaning.

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4 out of 5 stars Beyond the mechanics of biology.......2002-04-17

Barlow has set herself a momentous task. Sifting through a wealth of publications on evolution to distill out the significant works dealing with social issues. Her choices necessarily reflect a broad range of opinions, scientifically sound and otherwise. She's to be commended for providing the reader with a series of starting points to pursue in gaining a better understanding of the chosen topics. As she admits, compiling her earlier collection of works relating to Lovelock's Gaia thesis led her to investigate the impact of biology on philosophical thinking. This volume is the result. In it, she deals with such matters as evolution as a "progressive" force, evolution and "strife," and, of course, the relation of evolution to human morals and religion. Many debates and debaters are featured with their best expressions on the topics she wishes to address. While some authors and some topics might have been added, it is her book, not theirs. She has performed the task well.

She opens with Julian Huxley, grandson of "Darwin's Bulldog," who was outspoken on the "worldview" of the progressive role of evolution. Huxley sees "progress" in evolution as the development of ways for organisms to gain increased control over their environment. Only a selected few organisms have achieved, human beings the most obvious case. George G. Simpson is called upon to refute Huxley's thesis, declares it a myth without substance. He sees Huxley's idea as a typical example of anthropomorphism, stressing that "man is not the measure."

From this introduction, Barlow moves to the "tools and metaphors of evolution." In assessing how evolution works, thinkers in biology have crafted many means of explanation. Darwin used the concept of "wedges" to portray the competition for resources. Barlow offers examinations of Darwin's use of metaphor and how it has affected later thinkers. The key Darwinian phrase, "survival of the fittest" has led to various interpretations on the mechanics of evolution.

Barlow isn't shy about dealing with evolution and "cosmic visions." So long as humans, who appear to be the only animal with a "cosmic view," investigate evolution, there will be discussions of its impact on "spiritual" issues. Barlow's earlier collection certainly typifies "grand schemes" in evolutionary ideas. Here, she opens with the French paleontologist de Chardin in dealing with the relationship of science and Christianity. Not a recapitulation of the antagonisms between science and religion, the choices she's made express the struggle to put the spiritual alongside the biological. Barlow goes far afield in bringing to her collection the widest possible range of voices. Christian "creationist" Henry Morris is included with an attack on natural selection as both "atheistic" and a "religion" in its own right. He is countered by various authors ranging from Darwin to the Pope. It's a fitting and lively exchange with which to conclude the collection. As she must, one supposes, Barlow attempts to reconcile many of the viewpoints using the Gaia hypothesis. She labels this new synthesis "an Earth-based spirituality" combining the mechanics of evolution with an historical human need for something "beyond." In this synthesis, of course, nothing is excluded and there's room for all.
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    The Collaborative Way to Divorce: The Revolutionary Method that Results in Less Stress, Lower Costs, and Happier Kids--Without Going to Court
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    Blue Jelly: Love Lost & the Lessons of Canning
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    Former Rolling Stone writer Debby Bull recovers from a broken heart by making jelly. Though her boyfriend dedicates a novel to her and then leaves her in the middle of a party she gives to celebrate its publication, she comes away from it all with more than the bouquet of magazine scent strips that he left behind. In attempting to get rid of his stuff, she discovers the Zen of making jam, and through it the simple pleasure of creating a little world in which things turn out the way they're supposed to. She shares her funny stories of love lost, the twisted road out of her depression and the advice she got from psychics and strangers. Each of the chapters sees her go off in a new direction, looking for help in a different way, from dating again to taking a job, and sampling all the new cultural landscape has to offer to heal, from seeing a shrink to taking a seminar with a relationships guru.

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    Analytical Methods for Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow Problems
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      Although the solution of Partial Differential Equations by numerical methods is the standard practice in industries, analytical methods are still important for the critical assessment of results derived from advanced computer simulations and the improvement of the underlying numerical techniques. Literature devoted to analytical methods, however, often focuses on theoretical and mathematical aspects and is therefore useless to most engineers. Analytical Methods for Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow Problems addresses engineers and engineering students. It describes useful analytical methods by applying them to real-world problems rather than solving the usual over-simplified classroom problems. The book demonstrates the applicability of analytical methods even for complex problems and guides the reader to a more intuitive understanding of approaches and solutions.

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          Virus Separation and Purification Methods
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            Virus Separation and Purification Methods
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            This reference presents many contributions made by Dr Alfred Polson during his 41 years of research into the physicochemical properties of plant and animal viruses - detailing his timesaving approaches to the characterization, extraction, separation, concentration and purification of viruses, proteins, antibodies and biopolymers.;Describing successful laboratory techniques featuring the Beckman preparative centrifuge, this reference: examines the electro-extraction process for isolating the maximum amount of viruses from infected plant material; analyzes zone electrophoresis in sugar concentration gradients as a powerful tool for purifying entero-, insect born and insect viruses; contains material on the use of a reorienting gradient centrifuge rotor to separate components of the haemolymph of the mollusc Turbo sarmaticus as a model for virus separation; explains the construction of a modified thin-layer ultracentrifuge rotor for concentrating viruses into suspension rather than pellets; elucidates the use ofinserts in ultracentrifuge tubes in order to decrease the time of centrifuging; and introduces a method for determining pure viruse suspension densities.;This resource is intended for microbiologists, virologists, biochemists, molecular and cell biologists, immunologists, biochemical and bioprocess engineers, chemical engineers and graduate students in these disciplines.

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