"Fukuoka Shinichi: The Last Lecture" Author: [Japanese] Fukuoka Shinichi Publisher: Strait Bookstore

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If this is the last day of your life, what will you tell? The complete version of the highly acclaimed documentary "The Last Lecture" by Japan's NHK TV station.

This introductory book on life science by a famous Japanese biologist and best-selling popular science writer abandons the traditional view of life, understands life from a new perspective of dynamic balance, and redefines life and its value.

Life is not a machine that replaces parts as they go wrong, but a "dynamic balance" in which all parts are complementary and related, constantly being destroyed and decomposed, and replaced and synthesized. The same is true for the earth's ecosystem.

“Life is not a machine, but a dynamic balance.”

"Faced with the basic law of the universe that 'ordered things can only develop in the direction of disorder', life must always fight desperately. In fact, this is the reason and method for the survival of life. ... Because life gave up the way of making itself 'born solid' like a building at the beginning, and turned to being born with a soft and fragile body, and then adopted a strategy of continuous decomposition, discarding, and replacing to fight against the increase of entropy."

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About the Author
Fukuoka Shinichi

Japanese biologist, born in Tokyo in 1959, graduated from Kyoto University. He was a researcher at Harvard Medical School, an assistant professor at Kyoto University, and is currently a professor at Aoyama Gakuin and a visiting professor at Rockefeller University. His book "Between Living and Non-living Things" won the Suntory Science Award and the Chuokoron Shinsha New Book Award. His other works include "Dynamic Equilibrium", "Blue of the Glass Star Longhorn Beetle", "Vermeer: ​​The Hidden Dimension", and the translation of "The Adventures of Doctor Dolittle".