Spherophylon―THE INTEGRATED LIVES OF EARTH'S DIVERSE ORGANISMS [単行本]

Spherophylon―THE INTEGRATED LIVES OF EARTH'S DIVERSE ORGANISMS の 商品概要

• 目次

  Contents
  
  Foreword v
  Author’s Preface xiii
  
  Prologue Life on Earth Now: The Living Spherophylon 1
  　The lives of humans 2
  　We live because we are human 5
  　Is ignorance a crime? 7
  　Learning from our Neolithic ancestors 8
  　Can we make the right choice again? 9
  　Spherophylon and the traditional Japanese spirit 11
  　Why spherophylon now? 14
  
  Chapter 1 Life Supported by Time－How Old is Your Life? 19
  　1. The Age of Life 19
  　How long have you lived? 19
  　Over three billion years of life 20
  　2. The Age of the Materials that Form Individual Organisms 22
  　How old is your body? 22
  　The body is young forever 24
  　3. The Age of an Individual 25
  　When are individuals born? 25
  　Death: the end of a lifespan 27
  　Medical treatments and human brain death 29
  　Are individuals expendable? 33
  　How individuals influence the spherophylon after death 34
  
  Chapter 2 Biodiversity: Life Integrated on Earth beyond Time and Space 37
  1. Species Diversity: How Much Do We Knowabout Species? 37
  The current state of biodiversity research 37
  The number of extant species on Earth 38
  Analysis of species diversity 42
  The concept of biological species 44
  2. Genetic Diversity 45
  The structure and function of DNA 46
  The genetic laws of inheritance 47
  3. Biodiversity: Diverse phenomena found in living things 49
  Ecological diversity 49
  The characteristics of living things vary 50
  The diversity of organisms at various levels: DNA, cells, individuals, species, the ecosystem, and the spherophylon 51
  4. The Phylogeny of Living Organisms 54
  Organisms differentiating into myriad types 54
  Principles resulting in biodiversity 55
  All organisms are related to each other 56
  
  Chapter 3 Life Supported by Space: Mutual Collaboration by All the Organisms on Earth 59
  1. How Complete Is an Individual in Its Life? 59
  What is an individual? 59
  The spherophylon and cloned sheep: a dream of a better life 64
  The transfer of life from one individual to another: A generational update 68
  Learning from the dead 69
  2. The Life of a Cell 70
  The atoms and molecules that constitute a lifecarrying body 70
  Viruses 72
  The diverse lives of cells 75
  Cells and multicellular individuals 79
  3. The Ecosystem: Organisms Living in Collaboration 80
  Creatures that one person has direct relationships with 80
  Creatures that have indirect relationships with people 81
  The circle of life that forms the spherophylon 84
  What is the spherophylon? 86
  4. Individuals as Components of the Spherophylon 87
  The current form of individuals and the spherophylon 87
  The development of individuals and phylogeny 89
  Haeckel’s recapitulation theory and the spherophylon 90
  
  Chapter 4 Science, Nature, and Humanity 93
  1. What Science Has Given Us 93
  What we don’t know 93
  Realize how little we know 94
  Make people understand that they do not understand 96
  How far can something be proven? 97
  2. What Science Is Capable of Now 98
  Earthquake prediction: a case study of scientific precognition 98
  Global warming and biodiversity 101
  Changes in organisms brought on by global warming 103
  COVID-19 and the life of the spherophylon 105
  3. Research on Biodiversity 106
  Biodiversity and the spherophylon 106
  Biology and biodiversity research 107
  The biology of diversity 111
  4. Integrative Science 112
  Cells, individuals, and the spherophylon 112
  Various aspects of biodiversity research 114
  Analysis of species diversity 117
  
  Chapter 5 The Spherophylon and Humans as an Element Thereof 119
  1. The Lives of Humans and Nonhuman Organisms 119
  From humans as one species of living organisms to people and civilizations 119
  Life as people recognize it 122
  Human life controlled by people 126
  The lives of nonhuman organisms 128
  Understanding people properly 129
  2. Nature and Artificiality 131
  How natural is nature now? 131
  Artificiality in human life 134
  Going back to nature 136
  The impact of civilization on the diversification of plants 137
  3. Human Life and Nature 139
  Genetic resources 139
  Conservation of the human environment 141
  Reverence for life 143
  The narcissism of the spherophylon on Earth 146
  
  Chapter 6 Living the Life of the Spherophylon 147
  1. The Reality of the Spherophylon on Earth 147
  The life of the spherophylon 147
  Understanding the Earth’s spherophylon 148
  A spherophylon for each time and location 151
  What evolution brings to the spherophylon 152
  2. The Healthy Life of the Spherophylon 155
  Nature conservation and human activity 155
  Protecting the eternal life of the spherophylon 156
  Disease prevention for the spherophylon 159
  
  Chapter 7 Harmonious Coexistence between Nature and Humankind 161
  1. The Progress of Technology and Civilization 161
  What is technology? 161
  Technology and science 162
  Progress in technology 165
  Scientific technology and seafood 166
  2. What Technology Brings About 168
  What technology gives us 168
  How to use technology 170
  3. What Is Expected of Technology 173
  Technology for nature conservation 173
  Learning from nature: what it means to be one with nature 175
  Example 1: The development of agriculture in a desert area (Taklamakan Desert) 178
  Example 2: Wisdom in terraced fields (Yunnan) 180
  Example 3: A green city in the desert (Leigh Creek) 181
  4. Creating an Environment that Transcends Time and Space 184
  The development and creation of the environment 184
  Creating an environment that transcends time 186
  Creating an environment that transcends space 187
  5. Human Life and the Spherophylon 188
  Loving the spherophylon on Earth 188
  Either in harmony with nature or conquering nature 190
  People living in harmony with nature 192
  
  Chapter 8 What We Are to Create 195
  Environmental creation based on people’s wishes 195
  Everyone should know 197
  Chopsticks culture and thecreation of eternal environment 198
  What is the creation of the environment? 200
  Let Earth’s spherophylon prosper 201
  Challenges for modern humans: what we should create now 202
  Concluding remarks: for the healthy growth of the life of the spherophylon 203
  
  Acknowledgments 207
  Bibliography 209
  Color plates follow page 170.

• 出版社からのコメント

  日本を代表する植物学者の名著を、世界に向け英語版として出版。

• 内容紹介

  ★この書籍の小売店頭価格は、3,000円+税です。
  
  日本を代表する植物学者、岩槻邦男の名著『生命系：生物多様性の新しい見方』（1999年、岩波書店）を、20年を経て加筆修正し、世界に向け英語版として出版。生物は今という時を個体だけで生きているのではなく、ほかの生物とさまざまな関係をもって、生命発生以来の広大な時空間のなかに生きている。この生命活動を「生命系（Spherophylon）」という新しい概念に基づいてこれからの地球創成の道を提案する。

• 著者について

  岩槻 邦男 (イワツキ クニオ)
  岩槻邦男：1934 年兵庫県生まれ。兵庫県立人と自然の博物館名誉館長。日本植物学会会長、国際植物園連合会長、日本ユネスコ国内委員などを歴任。94 年日本学士院エジンバラ公賞受賞。2007年文化功労者。16年コスモス国際賞受賞。著書に『生命系』（岩波書店）、『ナチュラルヒストリー』（東大出版会）など。

Spherophylon―THE INTEGRATED LIVES OF EARTH'S DIVERSE ORGANISMS の商品スペック