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Eros and Evolution

Author : Richard E. Michod
Publisher : Perseus Books
ISBN 13 : 9780201442328
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (423 download)

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Download or read book Eros and Evolution written by Richard E. Michod and published by Perseus Books. This book was released on 1996-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bee lands on a blossom, a stag rears back his head in bellowing, a human couple lies exhausted in passionate embrace. The flower, the deer, the human, even the unseen virus - they all must have sex. But why? When we think of sex, we may think of the pleasure and pain it causes us. But there is a more fundamental problem of sex. It is the unresolved question of why sex exists at all. What are the consequences of sex that make it so important to us and so widespread in nature? The answer to this question lies not in our own attitudes and feelings about sex, but deep in our evolutionary past. Why did sex evolve as the means for reproduction for many species? Sex requires a huge commitment of time, energy, and resources, and it can even be physically dangerous. Sex is not the only path to reproduction - simple life forms do not practice sexual mating; offspring are produced by simple cell division. There are examples of higher life forms that practice asexual reproduction, in which the female reproduces alone. "Why sex?" is a question that was first raised by Charles Darwin in his Origin of the Species, and the answer has eluded biologists for over a century. In Eros and Evolution Richard Michod, a leading evolutionary biologist, begins his exploration into this question by pointing out the fatal flaws in the widely accepted "variation view", that sex is necessary for producing more diverse offspring than could be produced asexually. Chief among those flaws is the fact that sex undoes what it creates, producing a beneficial new combination of genes in one generation only to break it apart in the next. Michod argues that genetic variation and reproduction of organisms are side effects butnot the sole purpose of sex. According to his revolutionary theory, sex has a more far-reaching mission: to repair and overcome the genetic errorsdamages and mutations - that threaten life. With lucid explanations and intriguing excursions into our evolutionary past, this book shows how sex maintains the well-being of genes and in so doing, provides for the immortality of life itself. Yet, why sex exists is only part of the fascinating story in Eros and Evolution. This book also considers why it matters that sex exists. Michod deconstructs Darwin to explore such questions as "Why are there species?" and "Do organisms - as wonderfully designed as they are - really matter in evolution, or are they merely vehicles for the perpetuation of genes?" In the process he shows how what began as a necessary but mechanical process of gene repair has ended up forever changing the landscape of the living world.

Eros and Fable

Author : Baruch Urieli
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781897839140
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Eros and Fable written by Baruch Urieli and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Evolutionary Love and the Ravages of Greed

Author : Adam Crabtree
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1525509683
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Evolutionary Love and the Ravages of Greed written by Adam Crabtree and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2017-09-14 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The widespread turmoil in the human community today is a symptom of the dominance of unchecked desire, or Greed. This book distinguishes two ancient concepts of love (the Greek ideas of agape and eros) and explores how agape, the driver of evolution, when put into play through the harmonious action of eros, displays the true essence of love – Evolutionary Love– that alone is the antidote to the ravages of Greed.

Darwinian Dynamics

Author : Richard E. Michod
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691223866
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Darwinian Dynamics written by Richard E. Michod and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of fitness has long been a topic of intense debate among evolutionary biologists and their critics, with its definition and explanatory power coming under attack. In this book, Richard Michod offers a fresh, dynamical interpretation of evolution and fitness concepts. He argues that evolution has no enduring products; what matters is the process of genetic change. Whereas many biologists have focused on competition and aggression as determining factors in survival, Michod, by concentrating on the emergence of individuality at new and more complex levels, finds that cooperation plays even a greater role. Michod first considers the principles behind the hierarchically nested levels of organization that constitute life: genes, chromosomes, genomes, cells, multicellular organisms, and societies. By examining the evolutionary transitions from the molecular level up to the whole organism, the author explains how cooperation and conflict in a multilevel setting leads to new levels of fitness. He builds a model of fitness drawing on recent developments in ecology and multilevel selection theory and on new explanations of the origin of life. Michod concludes with a discussion of the philosophical implications of his theory of fitness, a theory that addresses the most fundamental and unique concept in all of biology.

Chaos, Gaia, Eros

Author : Ralph H. Abraham
Publisher : Epigraph Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781936940073
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Chaos, Gaia, Eros written by Ralph H. Abraham and published by Epigraph Publishing. This book was released on 2011-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Untitled Document Chaos, Gaia, Eros: A Chaos Pioneer Uncovers the Three Great Streams of History The History of the World According to Chaos Theory In this eclectic and interdisciplinary work, chaos pioneer Ralph Abraham traces the history of consciousness through a rediscovery of the three forces that drive it: chaos, gaia, and eros-the mind, body, and spirit of evolution. With startling originality and clarity of vision, Abraham employs photographs, timelines, charts, and an engaging format to sweep the reader along on this wild ride through math, science, mythology, philosophy, and the whole of history. Sure to fascinate the poet, scientist, philosopher, and historian in all of us, Chaos, Gaia, Eros is a mind-bending masterwork that reunites the chaotic and mythological forces of human history and blows the doors off existing modes of thought. "Chaos, Gaia, Eros deliteralizes history so we see it not only as a sequence of events, but as a flow of ideas and cultural myths... T]his is an important book for understanding the past, living in the present, and shaping the future." -David Fideler, founder of Phanes Press and editor of Alexandra: The Journal of the Western Cosmological Traditions "This extraordinary work is a veritable Rosetta stone, unlocking the past, present and future." -Joan Halifax, author of The Fruitful Darkness. " Ralph Abraham has] his own highly original ideas about the application of chaos theory to changes in history and consciousness, making for a rich and provocative blend" -Riane Eisler, author of The Chalice and the Blade. "Ralph Abraham is the most readable and delightful of mathematical pioneers. He is in the great tradition of Poincar and Whitehead, a true mathematical humanist. Chaos, Gaia, Eros is destined to be a voice shaping the new millennium." -Terence McKenna, author of True Hallucinations, The Invisible Landscape, Archaic Revival and Food of the Gods. -------- Ralph Abraham is a world renowned chaos theorist and professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

A Return to Eros

Author : Marc Gafni
Publisher : BenBella Books
ISBN 13 : 1944648194
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (446 download)

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Download or read book A Return to Eros written by Marc Gafni and published by BenBella Books. This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the secret relationship between erotic, the sexual, and the sacred Sex is not negative or positive. Sex is not just neutral, nor is it merely sacred because it creates babies. None of these old sexual stories work for us anymore. We need a new sexual narrative. This book gives the new sexual narrative, what the authors call Sex Erotic. Erotic Mystics from the hidden tradition of Solomon's temple taught a secret doctrine: sex is the source of all wisdom. It's an expression of the erotic impulse of existence itself alive in us–the yearning for contact, pleasure, and aliveness. The sexual, however, is not the sum total of the erotic. Rather, the sexual teaches us how to live an erotic life in all dimensions of our existence. That is Sex Erotic. A Return to Eros: The Radical Experience of Being Fully Alive, from Drs. Marc Gafni and Kristina Kincaid, reveals the radical tenets of the relationships between the sexual, the erotic, and the holy. They share what Eros actually means and also the 12 core qualities of the erotic, which are modeled by the sexual. These include being on the inside, fullness of presence, yearning, allurement, fantasy, surrender, creativity, pleasure, and more. A Return to Eros shows why these qualities of the erotic modeled by the sexual are actually the same core qualities of the sacred. The relationship between the sexual and the erotic becomes clear, teaching you how to live an erotically suffused existence charged with purpose, potency, and power. To be an empowered lover—not just in sex but also in all facets of your life—you must listen to the whisperings of the sexual. Transform your understanding and experience of love, sex, and Eros inside these pages.

Eros and Evolution

Author : Robert Endleman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780962288524
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (885 download)

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Download or read book Eros and Evolution written by Robert Endleman and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The psychological evolution of the human species, including especially human sexuality. We thus have a basis for universal propositions on human nature. These in turn connect psychoanalysis & the social sciences (PASO, psychoanalytic social science), where the evolutionary view & the psychoanalytic one reinforce & illuminate each other. From the pioneers, Freud, Rheim, Devereux, LaBarre to the later elaborations in recent decades, PASO has developed apace, with contributions by anthropologists, sociologists, psychoanalysts, political scientists, legal scholars, historians, & many others. The evolutionary story: late Miocene East Africa drying up: some tree-living vegetarian small primates move to a ground savannas, evolve upright posture, bipedal gait, freeing of the hands, hunting economy, omnivorous diet, endocrine change, much larger brain in a larger head, forcing the "premature birth" of the human neonate, thus the most helpless mammal neonate ever. They invent frontal coitus, lose estrus, complicate sex/aggression linkages, develop the peculiar precocious human sexuality. They prolong maternal care, infancy, juvenility; intensify male/female & infant/parent ties. Hunting economy, human speech-language & all the psychological & psychosexual dilemmas that psychoanalysis explores. By author of LOVE AND SEX IN 12 CULTURES, (Psyche Press 1989).

Eros Ascending

Author : John Maxwell Taylor
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 1583944265
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (839 download)

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Download or read book Eros Ascending written by John Maxwell Taylor and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2011-07-05 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ***FINALIST, USA Best Books 2010 Awards – Spirituality & Self-Help: Relationships The quest for lasting love is one of life’s essential pursuits, in some ways the most essential. But it’s also a quest that’s impossible to separate from spiritual and sexual needs. In Eros Ascending, author John Maxwell Taylor offers a wide-ranging study of sexual dysfunction in society and explains how healthy sexuality can be an entryway to universal love and higher consciousness. Based on Taylor’s twenty-three-year experience with Taoist practices, the book presents an engaging analysis of love, relationships, and sexuality from spiritual, romantic, and sexual perspectives. Taylor melds essential ideas by Jung, Gurdjieff, and Taoist Master Mantak Chia with science, biology, spiritual tradition, and current popular culture to shed new light on this eternal yet misunderstood subject. Not just for couples, the book is equally useful for single people who want to understand the methods for “learning to love yourself ” in preparation for a fulfilling, long-term relationship. Taylor draws on his eclectic background as a successful playwright, composer, actor, and musician in this persuasive plan for converting ordinary sexual energy into food for the soul.

Ecstatic Naturalism

Author : Robert S. Corrington
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253116284
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book Ecstatic Naturalism written by Robert S. Corrington and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1994-04-22 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Semiotic theory, which has restricted its focus largely to human forms of significations, is transformed by Robert S. Corrington into a semiotics of nature itself. Corrington situates the divide between "nature naturing" and "nature natured" within the contest of classical American pragmaticism and postmodern psychoanalysis. At the heart of this new metaphysics is an insistence that all signs participate in larger orders of meaning that are natural and religious. Meanings embodied in nature point beyond nature to the mystery inherent in positioned codes and signs.

Love, Sex and Everything in Between

Author : Martha Tara Lee
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9814516783
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (145 download)

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Download or read book Love, Sex and Everything in Between written by Martha Tara Lee and published by Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the sexual problems faced by most Asian women? How do you choose and wear a condom? Why do I feel the urge to masturbate even though I have regular sex with my wife? The answers to these and many other questions on love and sex are found within the pages of this new book. Presented as a series of articles interspersed with Questions and Answers on related topics, Dr Martha Tara Lee draws on her experience in this field to educate and inform readers. Written in a straight-forward manner, and no topic is taboo and readers can seek explanations to many “personal” problems and clear any doubts they may have. About the Author Martha Tara Lee is Founder and Clinical Sexologist of Eros Coaching in Singapore. She provides sexuality and intimacy coaching for individuals and couples, conducts sexual education workshops and speaks at public events in Asia. She holds a Doctorate in Human Sexuality from the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality as well as certificates in practical counselling, life coaching and sex therapy.

Love and Other Technologies

Author : Dominic Pettman
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823226689
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book Love and Other Technologies written by Dominic Pettman and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can love really be considered another form of technology? Dominic Pettman says it can - although not before carefully redefining technology as a cultural challenge to what we mean by the "human" in the information age. Using the writings of such important thinkers as Giorgio Agamben, Jean-LucNancy, and Bernard Stiegler as a springboard, Pettman explores the "techtonic" movements of contemporary culture, specifically in relation to the language of eros. Highly ritualized expressions of desire - love, in other words - always reveal an era's attitude toward what it means to exist as a selfamong others. For Pettman, the articulation of love is a technique of belonging: a way of responding to the basic plurality of everyone's identity, a process that becomes increasingly complex as the forms of mediated communication, from cell phone and text messaging to the mass media, multiply andmesh together.Wresting the idea of love from the arthritic hands of Romanticism, Pettman demonstrates the ways in which this dynamic assemblage - "the stirrings of the soul" - have always been a matter of tools, devices, prosthetics, and media. Love is, after all, something we make. And, love, this book argues,is not eternal, but external.

The Boundaries of Eros

Author : Guido Ruggiero
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195056965
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book The Boundaries of Eros written by Guido Ruggiero and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1989 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the records of several Venetian courts that dealt with sex crimes, Ruggiero traces the evolution of both licit and illicit sexuality during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, providing insight into Venetian society and, ultimately, the Renaissance itself.

Eros

Author : Don Miguel Ruiz
Publisher : Mystery School Series
ISBN 13 : 0711267286
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Eros written by Don Miguel Ruiz and published by Mystery School Series. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don Miguel Ruiz, the author of the classic The Four Agreements and one of the most influential spiritual leaders in the world today, offers students of mystery a new path of knowledge through the most powerful force in the uni-verse: love.

3D Management, an Integral Theory for Organisations in the Vanguard of Evolution

Author : Marco A. Robledo
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527555550
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book 3D Management, an Integral Theory for Organisations in the Vanguard of Evolution written by Marco A. Robledo and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-29 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If organisations are not working as well as they could, it is because they are still being managed by obsolete principles rooted in the Industrial Age. Until now, management has been a very one-dimensional discipline, in which only profits mattered. Having eyes fixed squarely upon the bottom line has endangered the planet, increased inequality, and disengaged employees. It is an unsustainable situation that calls for the radical redesign of management philosophical foundations. This book shows how to liberate organisations from the constraining assumptions and structures that hold them back, and how to build more conscious, humane, efficacious, and responsible forms of enterprise. 3D Management is an application of Ken Wilber’s ground-breaking Integral Theory that embodies the next stage of management evolution: smarter, nimbler, wiser, fairer, and fitter for the forthcoming metamodern times. This disruptive theory denies the imperialism of the bottom line and replaces it with a harmonic triumvirate that takes profit, people, planet, and purpose into account equally. An integral organisation is made up of three fundamental and irreducible dimensions: science, arts, and ethics, which refer respectively to the techno-economical, developmental, and moral aspects of organisational reality. These three aspects are woven together into an essential unit by the spiritual dimension, which strives for unity and meaning. 3D Management is a summum bonum of these four key dimensions to achieve sustainable excellence, spur organisational development, and create radically engaging workplaces, as well as making a better world. The text features more than 60 vanguard organisations, harbingers of the teal consciousness that will define the future of management. “One thing is certain: the more a truly integral business catches on, the more whole and fulfilled that humanity’s future will be. And 3D Management will have helped pave the way.” (from Ken Wilber’s foreword)

Macroevolution, Contingency, and Divine Activity

Author : Bradford McCall
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725278537
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book Macroevolution, Contingency, and Divine Activity written by Bradford McCall and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-10-27 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the things that God values in the creative process? How does one define God's activity in such a world? How is God's involvement different from a contingent--what this author labels contingentist--instance? Why do we need a God-idea at all? Herein, Bradford McCall addresses how divine, amorepotent love works with and within a contingentist (i.e., radically contingent) evolutionary theory and worldview. Within the course of this project, he reaches a via media between the (somewhat) radical formalist position of Simon Conway Morris and the veritably radical contingent position of Stephen Jay Gould. But . . . how is the contingentist amorepotent and uncontrolling love of God understood as purposeful? McCall argues in detail that there in fact is some sort of purposiveness that is nevertheless working in a chastened Gouldian position, and he distinguishes between contingency and veritable divine involvement. He contends that God does not insist upon a particular outcome but merely allows propensities to work themselves out. God amorepotently loves the population of the natural world into greater forms of complexity, relationality, and beauty in varied and multifarious forms, along with the extension of diversity.

Evolutionaries

Author : Carter Phipps
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062100602
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (621 download)

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Download or read book Evolutionaries written by Carter Phipps and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-06-26 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Carter Phipps brilliantly expands our understanding of evolution by showing us that a new science is emerging—one that will holistically integrate our understanding of consciousness, cosmology, and evolution.” —Deepak Chopra Blending cutting-edge ideas with incisive spiritual insights, Evolutionaries is the first popular presentation of an emerging school of thought called “evolutionary spirituality.” Carter Phipps, the former executive editor of EnlightenNext magazine, asserts that evolution is not only a scientific but also a spiritual idea in a book whose message has the power to bring new meaning and purpose to life as we know it. Readers will be fascinated and enlightened by Evolutionaries, a book which Deepak Chopra, the world-renowned author of The Seven Spiritual Laws of Superheroes, Jesus, and Buddha, says “is going to help create a worldview that will influence our vision of the future direction of evolution and also our role in consciously participating in it.”

From Dust to Life

Author : John Chambers
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400885566
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book From Dust to Life written by John Chambers and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The birth and evolution of our solar system is a tantalizing mystery that may one day provide answers to the question of human origins. From Dust to Life tells the remarkable story of how the celestial objects that make up the solar system arose from common beginnings billions of years ago, and how scientists and philosophers have sought to unravel this mystery down through the centuries, piecing together the clues that enabled them to deduce the solar system's layout, its age, and the most likely way it formed. Drawing on the history of astronomy and the latest findings in astrophysics and the planetary sciences, John Chambers and Jacqueline Mitton offer the most up-to-date and authoritative treatment of the subject available. They examine how the evolving universe set the stage for the appearance of our Sun, and how the nebulous cloud of gas and dust that accompanied the young Sun eventually became the planets, comets, moons, and asteroids that exist today. They explore how each of the planets acquired its unique characteristics, why some are rocky and others gaseous, and why one planet in particular--our Earth--provided an almost perfect haven for the emergence of life. From Dust to Life is a must-read for anyone who desires to know more about how the solar system came to be. This enticing book takes readers to the very frontiers of modern research, engaging with the latest controversies and debates. It reveals how ongoing discoveries of far-distant extrasolar planets and planetary systems are transforming our understanding of our own solar system's astonishing history and its possible fate.