Not everything was going to be that blind toast to life. Because in the maxim that governs everything, that premise that indicates the existence of things only based on their opposite value, life and death make up the essential framework between whose extremes we move.
And reason was not lacking for whoever coined that proposal erroneously imputed to Quino. I mean the one who said that his thing would be to pose life backwards. Proposing to be born in a death rattle to die in the climax of an orgasm...
Regardless of the vision that each one has, the enigmas of life and death reach a new dimension in the biology that closes this installment after the previous "Life told by a sapiens to a Neanderthal", by Miles and Arsuaga. Because what doesn't make much sense always turns out to be a vainglorious delight for reason and imagination.
“We would love to discover that each species has a biological clock in its cells, because, if that clock existed and if we were able to find it, perhaps we could stop it and thus become eternal”, Arsuaga asks Millás in this book in where science intertwines with literature. The paleontologist reveals essential aspects of our existence to the writer, and discusses the advisability of transmitting his hazardous vision of life to a dieting Millás who discovers that old age is a country in which he still feels like a foreigner.
After the extraordinary reception of The life told by a sapiens to a neanderthal, the most brilliant tandem of Spanish literature once again dazzles the reader by addressing topics such as death and eternity, longevity, illness, aging, natural selection, programmed death and survival.
Humor, biology, nature, life, lots of life... and two fascinating characters, Sapiens and Neanderthals, who surprise us on every page with their sharp reflections on how evolution has treated us as a species. And also as individuals.
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