Life through time and space - Wallace Arthur
KORTE INHOUD
We all had three origins: the origin of our own individual life, the origin of life on Earth, and the origin of our planetary home from a universe that initially had neither stars nor planets. This book tells the stories of these three origins and the evolutionary processes connected with them. It tells the stories in an intertwined way; and it considers the likelihood that intelligent life-forms on other planets exist--indeed are numerous--and had their own versions of these same three origins. The evolutionary story of the universe involves the origins of stars, planets, and life. The evolutionary story of life on Earth involves the origins of cells, animals, and intelligence. The evolutionary story of an intelligent alien living on an exoplanet somewhere in the Milky Way galaxy may have those same three origins, though here we're in the realm of hypothesis. But we come firmly back to Earth for the evolutionary story of the human embryo, which involves the origin of mulberries, sausages, and brains--though ...
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2017Uitgever: Harvard University Press277 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0674975863ISBN-13: 9780674975866Koop dit boek tweedehands
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2017, hardcover with dust jacket, fine copy / mooi exemplaar [Auteur: Arthur, Wallace] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: Harvard University Press] [Jaar: 2017] [Titel: Life through Time and Space]
