| Author | : Alice Kessler-Harris |
| File Size | : 42,9 Mb |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Language | : English |
| Release Date | : 16 January 2003 |
| ISBN | : 9780195157093 |
| Pages | : 431 pages |
Out to Work by Alice Kessler-Harris Book PDF Summary
Death, for bacteria, is not inevitable. Protect a bacterium from predators, and provide it with adequate food and space to grow, and it would continue living--and reproducing asexually--forever. But a paramecium (a slightly more advanced single-cell organism), under the same ideal conditions, would stop dividing after about 200 generations--and die. Death, for paramecia and their offspring, is inevitable. Unless they have sex ... In Sex and the Origins of Death, William Clark ranges far and wide over fascinating terrain. Whether describing a 62-year-old man having a ma.