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The Lives of a Cell
Abstract
WE are told that the trouble with Modern Man is that he has been trying to detach himself from nature. He sits in the topmost tiers of polymer, glass and steel, dangling his pulsing legs, surveying at a distance the writhing life of the planet. In this scenario, Man comes on as a stupendous lethal force, and the earth is pictured as something delicate, like rising bubbles at the surface of a country pond, or flights of fragile birds. But it is illusion to think that there is anything fragile about the life of the earth; surely this is the . . .
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Metadata
- Authors
- Thomas, L.
- Venue
- New England Journal of Medicine
- Publisher
- Massachusetts Medical Society
- Published
- 1971-05-13
- Volume
- 284
- Issue
- 19
- Pages
- 1082-1083
- ISSN
- 0028-4793
- 1533-4406
- OpenAlex
- W2041474741
- Cited by
- 201
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 0.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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