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The origins of sociable life : evolution after science studies / Myra J. Hird.
| Author/creator | Hird, Myra J. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, ©2009. |
| Description | xii, 202 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | 1. After war. Introduction -- Sokal's long fuse -- And now? -- A nonmodern microontology -- 2. Plenty of room at the bottom: thinking bacteria. 'Big like us' -- Domains archaea and bacteria -- Archaea: methanogens, hyperthermophiles and halophiles -- Forms of life -- Thinking (with) microbes -- Communities -- Social intelligence -- Meeting with bacteria -- 3. Evolutionary theory and its discontents. Introduction -- Symbiogenesis theory -- Symbiogenesis theory and neoDarwinism -- A tangled web, or 'On the origins of species by means of natural selection and all sorts of other things" -- Conclusions -- 4. Microontologies of self. Introduction -- Corporeal gifting, or the economic self -- The biological self -- Symbiotic generosity -- 5. Microontologies of sex. Barnacle sex -- Post-mature discoveries and evolutioanry theory's problem -- An/other glossary -- Sexual diversity -- Original frustrations, frozen accidents -- Quiet revolutions -- 6. Microontologies of environment. Introduction -- Gaia's filthy lesson, symbiosis from space -- Gaian meetings with science -- Flagships and the rest of us -- Toward an ecology of weakness -- 7. Eating well, surviving humanism. H'ordeuvre -- Eating well with bacteria -- Remembering and forgetting -- Surviving humanism. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN | 9780230202139 (cased) |
| ISBN | 0230202136 (cased) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Joyner | General Stacks | QR81.7 .H57 2009 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |