What Is Regeneration? Maienschein Jane
Two historians and philosophers of science offer an essential primer on the meaning and limits of regeneration.In punishment for his stealing fire, the Greek gods chained Prometheus to a rock, where…
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Two historians and philosophers of science offer an essential primer on the meaning and limits of regeneration.In punishment for his stealing fire, the Greek gods chained Prometheus to a rock, where every day an eagle plucked out his liver, and every night the liver regenerated. While Prometheus may be a figure of myth, scholars today ask whether ancient Greeks knew that the human liver does, in fact, have a special capacity to regenerate. Some organs and tissues can regenerate, while others cannot, and some organisms can regenerate more fully and more easily than others. Cut an earthworm in half, and two wiggly worms may confront you. Cut off the head of a hydra, and it may grow a new head. Cut off a human arm, and the human will be missing an arm. Why the differences? What are the limits of regeneration, and how, when, and why does it occur?In this book, historians and
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