Live Long and Evolve / What Star Trek Can Teach Us about Evolution, Genetics, and Life on Other Worlds - Mohamed A. F. Noor
What Star Trek Can Teach Us about Evolution, Genetics, and Life on Other Worlds
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An engaging journey into the biological principles underpinning a beloved science-fiction franchise In Star Trek, crew members travel to unusual planets, meet diverse beings, and encounter unique civilizations. Throughout these remarkable space adventures, does Star Trek reflect biology and evolution as we know it? What can the science in the science fiction of Star Trek teach us? In Live Long and Evolve, biologist and die-hard Trekkie Mohamed Noor takes readers on a fun, fact-filled scientific journey. Noor offers Trekkies, science-fiction fans, and anyone curious about how life works a cosmic gateway into introductory biology, including the definitions and origins of life, DNA, reproduction, and evolutionary processes, such as natural selection and genetic drift. For instance, he shows how the rapid change in a population of nanite robots follows basic principles of natural selection that apply to species on Earth. He explains how certain creatures depicted in the series are bisexual, not asexual, and what ...
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2018Uitgever: Princeton University Press208 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0691177414ISBN-13: 9780691177410Koop dit boek tweedehands
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2018, 208pp, hardcover met stofomslag, goed exemplaar [Auteur: Mohamed A. F. Noor] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: Princeton University Press] [Jaar: 2018] [Titel: Live Long and Evolve / What Star Trek Can Teach Us about Evolution, Genetics, and Life on Other Worlds]
