Notas de un observador de biología Serie
Esta serie de ensayos se adentra en las complejidades del mundo natural con una profunda curiosidad y perspicacia humanista. Explora la interdependencia de todos los seres vivos, trascendiendo los límites de la ciencia biológica tradicional. El autor utiliza reflexiones poéticas y personales para examinar una amplia gama de temas, desde los microbios hasta la sociedad humana, revelando las conexiones ocultas que nos unen a todos. Celebra la maravilla de la existencia y nuestro lugar dentro del universo.
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The medusa is a tiny jellfish that lives on the ventral surface of a sea slug found in the Bay of Naples. Readers will find themselves caught up in the fate of the medusa and the snail as a metaphor for eternal issues of life and death as Lewis Thomas further extends the exploration of a man and his world begun in "The Lives of a Cell." Among the treasures in this magnificent book are essays on the human genius for making mistakes, on disease and natural death, on cloning, on warts, and on Montaigne, as well as an assessment of medical science and health care. In these essays and others, Thomas once again conveys his observations of the scientific world in prose marked by wonder and wit.
