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In the Beat of a Heart Life, Energy, and the Unity of Nature

Out of Print
By: John Whitfield
280 pages, no illustrations
In the Beat of a Heart
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  • In the Beat of a Heart ISBN: 9780309096812 Hardback Sep 2006 Out of Print #161244
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For centuries, scientists have dreamt of discovering an underlying unity to nature. Science now offers powerful explanations for both the dazzling diversity and striking similarities seen in the living world. Life is complicated. It is truly the entangled bank that Charles Darwin described. But scientists are now discovering that energy is the unifying force that joins all life on Earth. Visionary biologists have advanced a new theory that explains how the natural world from the tiniest amoeba to the greatest rain forest is 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 myriad other intriguing questions.

In the Beat of a Heart combines biography, history, 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.

"This is writing about science at its best. Metabolic ecology is one of the newest and most exciting areas of ecology with a clear connection to evolution. The book is engagingly written and gives an excellent historical perspective" - Lev Ginzburg, Stony Brook University.

"Relevant to anyone with a professional or academic interest in biology... In the Beat of a Heart provides a fascinating insight into how science is done." - Timothy Walker in Times Higher Education Supplement

Winner of the Library Journal's Best Sci-Tech Books 2006 award in the Biology category.

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