''A brilliant book [that] shows a way out of the destructive trap of Anthropocentric arrogance.'' Vandana Shiva, from the Foreword
Biocivilisations is a fascinating, original and important exploration into how complex civilisations existed on Earth long before humans.
What is life? This is arguably the most important question in all of science. Many scientists believe life can be reduced to -mechanistic- factors, such as genes and information codes. Everything can be sequenced and explained. But in a world as rich and complex as this one, can such an assertion really be true?
A growing army of scientists, philosophers and artists do not share this mechanistic vision for the science of life. The gene metaphor is not only too simplistic but also misleading. If there is a way to reduce life to a single principle, how does that principle acknowledge the creativity of life that turns both genetic and informati
