Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States
- ISBN-10
- 0195157095
- ISBN-13
- 9780195157093
- Series
- Out to Work
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 414
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003-01-16
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Author
- Alice Kessler-Harris
Description
Death, for bacteria, is not inevitable. Protect a bacterium from predators, and provide it with adequate food and space to grow, and it would continue living--and reproducing asexually--forever. But a paramecium (a slightly more advanced single-cell organism), under the same ideal conditions, would stop dividing after about 200 generations--and die. Death, for paramecia and their offspring, is inevitable. Unless they have sex ... In Sex and the Origins of Death, William Clark ranges far and wide over fascinating terrain. Whether describing a 62-year-old man having a ma.
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