An exploration of the evolutionary mystery of programmed cell death, demonstrating how life and death coevolved, with cellular death being essential for sustaining more complex life. By synthesizing interdisciplinary research, The Evolutionary Origins Of Life And Death reveals that traits promoting life and death coadapted, highlighting their interconnectedness from the earliest cellular organisms.
Bear in mind that this book is written for students of biology and others with a fairly advanced knowledge of the natural world.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press (2020)

This a chapter in the series Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology: The New Era of Microbial Cell Death
Edited by Marie J Hardwick (John Hopkins University)
Aimed at undergraduate students in both humanities and science. Or anyone with an interest in the subject of mortality. I guess we all a little curious about it.
Publisher: Springer Nature (2025)

The knowledge that trauma of various kinds can be transmitted, physiologically, to subsequent generations in real and lasting ways is
both profound and far reaching. Scientists have worked out some of the mechanisms and in this chapter I give a brief summary of how this works.
It is intended for non-specialists and includes examples from United Nations declared genocides incl. but not limited to Afghanistan,
Poland and Germany, and Gaza.
The essay appears in the collection of non-fiction commentaries and essays, poetry, and creative writing
Loud Explosions, Silenced Screams: Reflections on the War in Gaza
edited by Mark Potterton with foreword by Justice Edwin Cameron.
Publisher: Jacana Press Staging Post (2026)