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050 00 $aQH501$b.W48 2006
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100 1 $aWhitfield, John,$d1970-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2006028273
245 10 $aIn the beat of a heart :$blife, energy, and the unity of nature /$cJohn Whitfield.
260 $aWashington, D.C. :$bJoseph Henry Press,$c[2006], ©2006.
300 $avii, 270 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 255-260) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tPrologue : "I have taken to mathematics" -- $g2.$tThe slow fire -- $g3.$tMoving the line -- $g4.$tSearching for similarity -- $g5.$tNetworking -- $g6.$tThe pace of life -- $g7.$tSeeing the forest for the trees -- $g8.$tThe cult of Santa Rosalia -- $g9.$tHumboldt's gifts -- $g10.$tA Newton of the grass blade? -- $g11.$tEpilogue : "the great desideratum"
520 1 $a"Visionary biologists have advanced a new theory that explains how all the living creatures of the world - from the tiny amoeba to the vast rain forest - are constructed, providing a fresh perspective on the essential interconnectivity of living systems." "This revolutionary theory explains a variety of phenomena, helping us understand why a shrew eats its bodyweight in food each day, why a mammal's heart beats about 1 billion times in its lifetime, why there are no trees as tall as the Eiffel Tower, and why more species live at the Earth's equator than at its poles. By looking at how living things use energy, we can answer these and a myriad of other intriguing questions." "In the Beat of a Heart combines biography, history and science, and nature writing to capture the exciting advances - and the people who are making them - that are triggering a revolution as potentially important to biology as Newton's insights were to physics."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aLife (Biology)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85076810
650 0 $aVital force.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143946
650 0 $aNature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85090277
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0612/2006012277.html
852 00 $boff,sci$hQH501$i.W48 2006