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Jonathan Silvertown

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Jonathan was born and raised in London and his schoolboy nature watching was done while taking furtive short-cuts on cross-country runs across Hampstead Heath. He made much faster progress when running back from Hampstead’s bookshops in time to beat the end of lunch hour bell. His first scientific paper was submitted with an epigraph by Walter de la Mare which the editor removed with a snide comment, and ever since Jonathan has done his best to hide the poetry in his scientific prose. In Orchard Invisible the poet emerges barefaced in the very first line with the words: “Seeds have a mirrored life, the original in nature and another reflected in literature and the imagination.”

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	Dinner with Darwin: Food, Drink, and Evolution 3.93 avg rating — 470 ratings — published 2017 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	حياتنا... وإن طالت!: علم دراسة طول العمر والشيخوخة (عالم المعرفة، #438) by Jonathan Silvertown (Goodreads Author), سحر توفيق (Goodreads Author) (ترجمة) 3.35 avg rating — 217 ratings — published 2013 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Orchard Invisible: A Natural History of Seeds 3.84 avg rating — 151 ratings — published 2009 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Demons in Eden: The Paradox of Plant Diversity 3.93 avg rating — 86 ratings — published 2005 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	99% Ape: How Evolution Adds Up by Jonathan Silvertown (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Peter W. Skelton, Gary Slapper 3.85 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Comedy of Error: why evolution made us laugh 3.58 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 2020 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Selfish Genes to Social Beings: A Cooperative History of Life 3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fragile Web: What Next for Nature? 4.13 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Introduction to Plant Population Biology by Jonathan Silvertown (Goodreads Author), Deborah Charlesworth 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1982 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Plant Life Histories: Ecology, Phylogeny and Evolution 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“أنتجت المعركة الدائمة بين الجنسين سحابة من التحيز والفكاهة حول مدى معاناة النساء والرجال من سوء الصحة. وهناك دعابة منتشرة -ربما هي حتى إدراك مشترك- بأن الرجال يحولون أقل ألم إلى دراما لجذب الانتباه. لكن الدراسات المسحية حول الصحة السيئة عند النساء والرجال تروي لنا قصة مختلفة ومفارقة حادة. حيث معدل الوفيات أعلى بين الرجال عن النساء في جميع الأعمار بالنسبة إلى أعلى اثنتي عشرة حالة من أسوأ الحالات الصحية الرئيسية مثل السرطان وأمراض القلب والأوعية الدموية. ولكن النساء لديهن معدل أعلى من الرجال في الأمراض الوظيفية، وزيارات الأطباء، والبقاء في المستشفيات. وعند السؤال عن الصحة في أثناء المسح، يقول الرجال إنهم في صحة أفضل مما تقول النساء من العمر نفسه، ولكن معدلات الوفيات تبين أن النساء هن الجنس الأكثر متانة وقدرة على التحمل. ويكبر النساء والرجال بالمعدل نفسه، لكن الخط الأساسي أومعدل الوفيات الأوّلي أقل عند النساء من الرجال. وإذا أردت، بطريقة ذكورية نموذجية، أن أعبر عن الحالة على نحو دراماتيكي مبالغ فيه، فأقول "تولد النساء للمعاناة، ويولد الرجال للموت".”
― Jonathan Silvertown, The Long and the Short of It: The Science of Life Span and Aging

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