Word: organismic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Are there other viruses as dangerous as HIV-or even more dangerous-lurking on the edge of civilization? That's the question that haunts public-health officials. Dr. Karl Johnson, formerly a virologist with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, wonders: "Suppose we get a virus that is...
Surely it is arrogant for us to think that beings as insignificant as ourselves will ever unravel the mystery of the universe. After all, why should a dog be able to understand why it barks? For all we know, the earth may be nothing more than a virus in the...
Throughout the work, the Borromeo displayed incredible synchrony, especially during extended pizzicato sections. They acted as an evolving organism, assuming new forms as the music changed, and undulating through its wide gestures.
Proponents of the "Gaia" theory, introduced in1972 by James Lovelock, believe the Earth can beviewed as a single harmonious organism. "Gaia"refers to a unified geologically and biologicallybalanced planet whose components comprise aself-regulating system optimized for sustaininglife.
"Differentiation and integration are fundamental to the dynamic maturation of the human organism." (Social Relations)