Dead Sexy: How an arms race with parasites gave us sexuality and mortality by Whitehead, Thomas

Dead Sexy: How an arms race with parasites gave us sexuality and mortality (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781484821510)

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Dead Sexy: How an arms race with parasites gave us sexuality and mortality by Whitehead, Thomas

Dead Sexy: How an arms race with parasites gave us sexuality and mortality

$12.99
Dead Sexy: How an arms race with parasites gave us sexuality and mortality by Whitehead, Thomas

Dead Sexy: How an arms race with parasites gave us sexuality and mortality

$12.99
Format: Paperback
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Death is inevitable, we're told. Everything wears out, and that includes our bodies. So aging is a matter of wearing out. The conventional wisdom is that we get old - and eventually die - simply because our bodies become too worn to function as they should. But what if the conventional wisdom is completely wrong? There is growing evidence that senescence and death are inventions, evolutionary creations that serve a specific and previously unsuspected purpose. The evidence says that they are in fact weapons developed in the course of our struggle to defeat our parasites. The new view is that we die not because we "wear out," but to prevent parasites from overwhelming the human species. The same evidence explodes the conventional wisdom about sex. We recognize the act of sex as the way we conceive children. We accept sexual drive and attraction as potent forces shaping our personal identities and our relationships. But not many of us are aware that scientists have historically regarded sex as a true mystery. They have never been unable to fully account for the intricacies of sexual reproduction. In fact, emerging evidence shows that death and sex bear a close relationship to immunity. Our immune functions protect us from pathogens. As it turns out, death and sex perform a similar function. In this sense all these seemingly unrelated things can be grouped under the same grand umbrella. Dead Sexy is a fascinating read that traces the connection between immunity, death, and sex. It is a user-friendly book that weaves together a wealth of scientific findings to clearly explain how these weapons came to be, exactly how they protect us, and how better understanding them can improve our quality of life.

Author: Thomas Whitehead
ISBN-10: 1484821513
ISBN-13: 9781484821510
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 05/07/2013
Pages: 142
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.38lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.30d
By Thomas Whitehead
By Thomas Whitehead
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Author Thomas Whitehead entered college in 1964, with a major in mechanical engineering. But he quickly realized he had broader interests. He began taking biology, psychology, and philosophy courses. A couple of years later Thomas irritated his academic advisors by switching his major to psychology. He has for most of his life worked as a professional counselor. "I strongly believe in the scientific method," says Thomas. But the central ideas for his Viral Schemes book series came out of his years of work with psychotherapy clients. "I worked with a lot of people who were struggling with their own worst habits. After a time I began to see something virus-like in their repetitive behavior," he recently remarked. Some of his friends have jokingly called him The Mad Scientist. "That's ridiculous," Thomas says. "I'm a Mad Philosopher."

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