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Death has not always been an inevitable component of life. Obligatory death as a result of senescence -- natural ageing -- may not have come into existence for more that billion years after life first appeared. This form of programmed death seems to have arisen at about the same time that cells began experimenting with sex in connection with...

Lives and Miracles of Saints Oda, Dunstan, and OswaldThe biographical and historical works of Eadmer, secretary of Saint Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury, look back to the Anglo-Saxon past and reflect contemporary realities of Norman society.   The Lives of Saints Oda, Dunstan and Oswald, newly edited here with a modern English translation, provide...

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