Earth, Life, and System - Evolution and Ecology on a Gaian Planet

Informationen zum Autor BRUCE CLARKE is Paul Whitfield Horn Professor of Literature and Science in the Department of English at Texas Tech University. He is the author of Narrative and Neocybernetics; Posthuman Metamorphosis: Narrative and Systems (Fordham); Allegories of Writing: The Subject of Metamorphosis; and Energy Forms: Allegory and Science in the Era of Classical Thermodynamics. He is also, with Linda Dalrymple Henderson, editor of From Energy to Information: Representation in Science and Technology, Art, and Literature, and, with Mark B. N. Hansen, Emergence and Embodiment: New Essays on Second-Order Systems Theory. Klappentext Earth, Life & System: Evolution and Ecology on a Gaian Planet explores the multiple themes of Lynn Margulis's science: microbial evolution, ecology and symbiosis, the coupled interactions of environment and life in Gaia theory, and the connections of these newer scientific ideas to cultural and creative productions. Zusammenfassung Earth, Life & System: Evolution and Ecology on a Gaian Planet explores the multiple themes of Lynn Margulis’s science: microbial evolution, ecology and symbiosis, the coupled interactions of environment and life in Gaia theory, and the connections of these newer scientific ideas to cultural and creative productions.

Product details

• Authors: Bruce Clarke, Bruce (EDT) Clarke
• Assisted by: Bruce Clarke (Editor)
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2015
• EAN: 9780823265244
• ISBN: 978-0-8232-6524-4
• No. of pages: 368
• Series: Meaning Systems (Fup); Meaning Systems; Meaning Systems
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Natural science