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Lifeworld (or life-world) (German: Lebenswelt) may be conceived as a universe of what is self-evident or given, [1] a world that subjects may experience together. The concept was popularized by Edmund Husserl , who emphasized its role as the ground of all knowledge in lived experience.
Life is a quality that distinguishes matter that has biological processes, such as signaling and self-sustaining processes, from matter that does not. It is defined descriptively by the capacity for homeostasis, organisation, metabolism, growth, adaptation, response to stimuli, and reproduction.
Life on Our Planet is an American television nature documentary series released on Netflix and produced by Amblin Television and Silverback Films. Executive-produced by Steven Spielberg and narrated by Morgan Freeman, the series focuses on the evolutionary history of complex life on Earth. Upon its release, the series received generally mixed ...
Book Five—The History and Adventures of Life. The Prologue 644; Life Before Fossils 660; The Era of Crawling and Swimming 675; Life Conquers the Dry Land 701; The Full Conquest of the Land 738; The Modern Era 774; Man Dawns Upon the World 796; Book Six—The Spectacle of Life. Habitats 823; Life in the Sea 839; Life in Fresh Water and on Land 878
The entire Earth contains over 75 billion tons (150 trillion pounds or about 6.8×10 13 kilograms) of biomass (life), which lives within various environments within the biosphere. [ 52 ] Over nine-tenths of the total biomass on Earth is plant life, on which animal life depends very heavily for its existence. [ 53 ]
Longfellow wrote the poem shortly after completing lectures on German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and was heavily inspired by him. He was also inspired to write it by a heartfelt conversation he had with friend and fellow professor at Harvard University Cornelius Conway Felton; the two had spent an evening "talking of matters, which lie near one's soul:–and how to bear one's self ...
Standard of living is the level of income, comforts and services available to an individual, community or society.A contributing factor to an individual's quality of life, standard of living is generally concerned with objective metrics outside an individual's personal control, such as economic, societal, political, and environmental matters. [1]
Thomas began writing a monthly essay “Notes of a Biology Watcher” in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1971 while he was at Yale. In 1973 he became the president of the Sloan-Kettering Institute in New York. Lewis Thomas published multiple books throughout his career, the first being The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher.