Bioverse

Bioverse offers deep insights into a new understanding of how evolution works its magic, re-focusing on the role of each organism's behaviors, cognition, and desires, down to the level of single cells and the microbes that form our body's microbiome. Miller suggests that cognition, as it is embodied in cells, provides life's evolutionary drive in this cutting-edge approach to evolutionary theory. - Tam Hunt, evolutionary biologist at UC Santa Barbara's META Lab and author of Mind, World, God: Science and Spirit in the 21st Century My lifetime has been spent studying the miracles cells perform, and here at last is a wonderful book that celebrates the majesty of the life under the microscope. - Brian J. Ford, award-winning research biologist, lecturer, broadcaster, and author of Too Big to Walk, among many others Stunning... Bioverse draws the reader into new and surprising aspects of the intelligence of microbial life. Miller has pioneered Cognition-Based Evolution as an alternative to orthodox evolutionary biology that is based almost entirely on blind natural selection. Readers will come to understand themselves better through learning how much we depend on the microbiome. Bioverse shows that every cell in our body exhibits natural intelligence. - Denis Noble FRS, professor emeritus and co-director of Computational Physiology, University of Oxford, pioneer of systems biology, and author of The Music of Life With brilliant gems on every page, Bioverse is the story of our new scientific 'Era of the Cell, ' or should we say, era of the cognitive cell. Filled with the most up-to-date science on our cells and microbes, and placing it in deep philosophical and cultural context, Miller demonstrates the vast implications of the connectedness of all life on earth. Bioverse provides wisdom for understanding our identity as a superorganism, as well as the meaning of our human life. - Jon Lieff MD, neuroscientist, neuropsychiatrist, former president of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, and author of The Secret Language of Cells A lively and enjoyable tour of cell science, microbiology, and the implications of basal intelligence from medicine to society. - Michael Levin, Distinguished Professor of Biology and Vannevar Bush Chair, Tufts University An encyclopedic and engaging exploration of the edges of origins to the gut microbiome, to kissing and sex, to plant intelligence and extraterrestrial life. Bioverse is a comprehensive account of what it means to be alive. - Perry Marshall, author of Evolution 2.0 and founder of the $10 Million Evolution 2.0 Prize A stimulating book - truly original. - Frank Ryan, bestselling author of Virus X and Virusphere, among others Dr. Miller's brilliant insights into evolutionary biology are provocative and prescient. Bioverse is a profound work of research, exploration, and contemplation with a message - all cells are intelligent. I highly recommend this book for anyone interested in our beginnings and our present understanding of who we are as human beings. - LJ Frank, Publisher of Narrative Paths Journal, author, artist, philosopher, and former library director Remarkable... Miller shows us that microbes are smart. Humans are smart, too, and his Bioverse takes readers on a fabulous ride from those first surprisingly intelligent unicellular species to us, touching on, well, almost everything along the way. - Arthur S. Reber, PhD, author of The First Minds: Caterpillars, Karyotes, and Consciousness