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Life is definitively purposive and creative. Organisms use genes in controlling their destiny. This book presents a paradigm shift in understanding living systems. The genome is not a code, blueprint or set of instructions. It is a tool orchestrated by the system. This book shows that gene-centrism misrepresents what genes are and how they are used by living systems. It demonstrates how organisms make choices, influencing their behaviour, their development and evolution, and act as agents of natural selection. It presents a novel approach to fundamental philosophical and cultural issues, such as free-will. Reading this book will make you see life in a new light, as a marvellous phenomenon, and in some sense a triumph of evolution. We are not in our genes, our genes are in us.

Biology. --- Organisms. --- Biological organisms --- Biota --- Living organisms --- Life (Biology) --- Species --- Life sciences --- Natural history

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Insect societies. --- Sociétés d'insectes --- Insect societies --- Insecta --- Comportement social --- social behaviour --- Évolution --- evolution --- Adaptation --- Biote --- biota --- Sociétés d'insectes --- evolution.

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574 --- 574 General ecology. Biocoenology. Hydrobiology. Biogeography --- General ecology. Biocoenology. Hydrobiology. Biogeography --- Biote --- biota --- Relevé (des données) --- surveying --- Échantillonnage --- Ecology --- Methodology --- ecology --- data collection --- Sampling --- Data analysis --- Ecologie --- Méthodologie

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How might we change ourselves without ending our existence? What could we become, if we had access to an advanced form of bioengineering that allowed us dramatically to alter our genome? Could we remain in existence after ceasing to be alive? What is it to be human? Might we still exist after changing ourselves into something that is not human? What is the significance of human extinction? Steven Luper addresses these questions and more in this thought-provoking study. He defends an animalist account, which says that we are organisms, but claims that we are also material objects. His book goes to the heart of the most complex questions about what we are and what we might become. Using case studies from the life sciences as well as thought experiments, Luper develops a new way of thinking about the nature of life and death, and whether and how human extinction matters.

Object (Philosophy) --- Ontology. --- Organisms. --- Life. --- Death. --- Posthumanism. --- Philosophy --- Death --- Dying --- End of life --- Life --- Terminal care --- Terminally ill --- Thanatology --- Biological organisms --- Biota --- Living organisms --- Life (Biology) --- Species --- Being --- Metaphysics --- Necessity (Philosophy) --- Substance (Philosophy)

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FUNGI --- SOILS --- MANGROVES --- MICROMYCETES --- MYXOMYCETES --- YEASTS --- MYCOSES --- THERMOPHILIC FUNGI --- ALTERNARIA --- CRYPTOCOCCOSIS --- MICROORGANISMS --- TROPICAL REGIONS --- BIOTA --- BIODIVERSITY --- SYSTEMATICS --- COMMUNITIES --- CHECKLISTS --- SYMBIOSIS --- DISTRIBUTION --- MOLECULAR SYSTEMATICS --- ECOLOGY --- PATHOGENICITY --- SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE --- REVIEWS --- MEXICO