Forces Of Change A New View Of Nature: A New View of Nature

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Takes readers on a tour of truly global proportions. In this single volume, more than 20 of the world's most innovative and visionary scientists, scholars, and writers, including Stephay Jay Gould, Lynn Margulis, Daniel Botkin, and David Quammen - illuminate the forces that have defined and continue to transform our planet and all of its inhabitants. Nature does not remain in steady balance, as earlier believed; rather it undergoes constant change. This new view of nature challenges assumptions and changes our sense of being human in this cosmos. All together, these essays represent a dramatic range of new ideas about nature and the future of the planet.