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The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher

Lewis Thomas

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#605 of 3,809 books · #44 in Science & Technology

Won the National Book Award for Nonfiction (1975).

Elegant, suggestive, and clarifying, Lewis Thomas's profoundly humane vision explores the world around us and examines the complex interdependence of all things. Extending beyond the usual limitations of biological science and into a vast and wondrous world of hidden relationships, this provocative book explores in personal, poetic essays to topics such as computers, germs, language, music, death, insects, and medicine. Lewis Thomas writes, "Once you have become permanently startled, as I am, by the realization that we are a social species, you tend to keep an eye out for the pieces of evidence that this is, by and large, good for us."

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Publisher
Penguin
ISBN-13
9781101667057
Topics
Biology and natureInterdependence of lifeHuman society and evolution

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