Long for This World
The Strange Science of Immortality
New York, NY : Ecco, [2010]
Format: Ebook
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Edition: First edition.
Description: 1 online resource (x, 310 pages)
This rollicking scientific adventure story is science writing of the highest order and with the highest stakes. Could we live forever? And if we could--would we want to?--From publisher description.
Contents:
The phoenix. Immortal longings ; The problem of mortality ; Life and death of a cell ; Into the nest of the phoenix -- The hydra. The evolution of aging ; The garbage catastrophe ; The seven deadly things ; The Methuselah wars ; The weakest link -- The good life. Long for this work ; The trouble with immortality ; The everlasting yes and no.
ISBN:
9780062000217 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
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Ebook
Description based on print version record.
Electronic resource.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-297) and index.
Electronic resource.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-297) and index.