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For instance, the pinus genome is considered innumerably more "complex" than the human genome, and to claim that mammals are more complex than, for instance, birds, is a dubious supposition.Ä«ookchin's damning and scathing critique of "Deep Ecology" and other mystical element s of the environmental movement are valid, but repetitive to the point of seriously compromising the integrity of this work. The idea is specious and biologically misleading. This refers to a "hierchy of being" expounded first by Thomas Aquinas and modified subsequently, that basically says there has been a dynamic, and moreover morally important, unfolding from "basic" amoebas all the way through echinodemers to humans. Less defensible is Bookchin's repeated invocation of Scala Natura. While not exactly forgivable, this omission is at least understandable. that gerontocracy was the first "hierarchy") are annoying. Thus, the sparce referencing of his historical and archaelogical claims (e.g. This book basically is a summary of stuff Bookchin has said elsewhere, in perhaps a slightly more accessible, if vaguer, form. First of all, sorry for the no picture, I couldn't find one off the web to steal, and the bookcover was taken off the library edition I read so taking my own photograph would've been pointless.
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