Imperfection
A Natural History
$47.42
- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
12 March 2024
Summary
In praise of imperfection - how life on our planet is a catalog of imperfections, errors, alternatives, and anomalies.
In the beginning, there was imperfection, which became the source of all things. Anomalies and asymmetries caused planets to take shape from the bubbling void and sent light into darkness. Life on earth is a catalog of accidents, alternatives, and errors that turned out to work quite well. In this book, Telmo Pievani shows that life on our planet has flourished and su…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262548359 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262548356 |
| Author: | Telmo Pievani, Michael Gerard Kenyon |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 12 March 2024 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 133mm |
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Critics Review
“Imperfection takes the reader on a convincing whirlwind tour of the dangers as well as the impossibility of perfection, how imperfection is built into the nature of the universe, and into all living things—including ourselves… a perfect way to begin understanding our imperfect world.”
– Wall Street Journal
About The Author
Telmo Pievani
Telmo Pievani is Full Professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Padua, where he covers the first Italian chair of Philosophy of Biological Sciences. A leading science communicator and columnist for Il corriere della sera, he is the author of The Unexpected Life, Creation without God, Serendipity, and other books.
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