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Bioverse
How the Cellular World Contains the Secrets to Life's Biggest Questions
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About this book
For as long as humans have been on Earth, we have looked up to the stars for clues to our own existence. Medical doctor and evolutionary biologist William B. Miller, Jr. suggests that we may find more meaningful solutions at the end of a microscope rather than a telescope. Using powerful analogies and exacting science, Bioverse explores the wonders of the perpetual partnership between our personal cells and the microbial world, resulting in an entirely new view of our living planet.
To understand life in all its varieties, we must undertake to understand our cells. While the partnership between our cells and our microbes has largely been thought of as that of “host” and “guest,” Millerrevealsthetrue partnership under which both our microbial fraction and our own personal cells conduct a life-long dialogue, redefining our traditional conceptions of intelligence and problem-solving. This radical new approach explains exactly how our human choices are centered within the same cellular rules that enable our cells to seamlessly sustain our lives.
We are now entering the “Era of the Cell,” a time in history during which medical and scientific innovations have spurred growth far beyond ever imagined by our ancestors. For the first time, we are not only building machines to enhance our lives but engineering living organisms to assist our futures. From the biological origins of evolution to the invention of the compound microscope by a Dutch lens maker in the 17th century, to new research that reveals surprising links between our microbiome and our moods and behavior, and surprising stories of the cellular world from the deepest oceans, wildest jungles, and outer reaches of our solar system, Millerintroduces readers to a greater understanding of our impact on the planet and the world’s reciprocal impact on each of us.
By exploring the extent of our deeply integrated cellular world, Bioverse provides profound insights about ourselves, our health and well-being, our social systems, and our permanent relationship to the planet and the cosmos.
To understand life in all its varieties, we must undertake to understand our cells. While the partnership between our cells and our microbes has largely been thought of as that of “host” and “guest,” Millerrevealsthetrue partnership under which both our microbial fraction and our own personal cells conduct a life-long dialogue, redefining our traditional conceptions of intelligence and problem-solving. This radical new approach explains exactly how our human choices are centered within the same cellular rules that enable our cells to seamlessly sustain our lives.
We are now entering the “Era of the Cell,” a time in history during which medical and scientific innovations have spurred growth far beyond ever imagined by our ancestors. For the first time, we are not only building machines to enhance our lives but engineering living organisms to assist our futures. From the biological origins of evolution to the invention of the compound microscope by a Dutch lens maker in the 17th century, to new research that reveals surprising links between our microbiome and our moods and behavior, and surprising stories of the cellular world from the deepest oceans, wildest jungles, and outer reaches of our solar system, Millerintroduces readers to a greater understanding of our impact on the planet and the world’s reciprocal impact on each of us.
By exploring the extent of our deeply integrated cellular world, Bioverse provides profound insights about ourselves, our health and well-being, our social systems, and our permanent relationship to the planet and the cosmos.
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Table of contents
- 1 As Above, So Below: The Cosmic Dimension
- 2 The Birth of a New Epoch
- 3 Everything Has a Beginning
- 4 The Quantum Realm
- 5 Life’s Building Blocks
- 6 Kick-Starter
- 7 Life’s Basics . . . No Matter Its Start
- 8 The Cellular Connectome
- 9 And Our Cells Make Us
- 10 The Surprising Scope of the Human Microbiome
- 11 My Microbes Made Me Do It
- 12 That Was Then: Medical Miseries Yield to New Hope
- 13 This Is Now: New Weapons
- 14 You Are the Environment
- 15 Your Ancestors Shaped Your Microbiome
- 16 Our Long Battle against Infectious Disease
- 17 Our Metabolism Connects to Our Modern Microbiome
- 18 Cultivating an Optimized Microbiome for Your Better Health
- 19 “Nature versus Nurture”: Sex and Birthing
- 20 Are You as Smart as a Microbe?
- 21 The Cell Harnessed to Humankind
- 22 Cellular Harmonies: Human Behavior and Our Cells
- 23 Interconnected Ecologies
- 24 Cellular Space-Time
- Conclusion: It’s Not All about You
- Acknowledgments
- Notes