Units of life, the: kinds of individual in biology
Auteur :
Clarke, Ellen
Éditeur :
Oxford University Press
ISBN :
9780192857194
Date de publication :
12 juin 2025
Dimensions :
24,2 x 16,4 x 2,0 cm
Poids :
629 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
In The Units of Life Ellen Clarke argues that our way of conceptualizing living things--of understanding the living world as carved up into numerous separate chunks--is best understood as idealization. This idealization serves valuable pragmatic and theoretical purposes, but stands as a distortion nonetheless of the more messy and variable reality.