Origins : the scientific story of creation /

What is the nature of the material world? How does it work? What is the universe and how was it formed? What is life? Where do we come from and how did we evolve? How and why do we think? What does it mean to be human? How do we know?There are many different versions of our creation story. This book...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Baggott, J. E.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, ©2015.
Temas:
Beginning.
Cosmography.
Life > Origin.
Cosmology.
Astronomy > Philosophy.
Commencement (Philosophie)
Cosmographie.
Vie > Origines.
Cosmologie.
Astronomie > Philosophie.
cosmography.
cosmology.
Astronomy > Philosophy
Beginning
Cosmography
Cosmology
Life > Origin
Origin of the Solar system
Solar system > Origin.
Universe.
Système solaire > Origines.
Solar system
Universe
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:What is the nature of the material world? How does it work? What is the universe and how was it formed? What is life? Where do we come from and how did we evolve? How and why do we think? What does it mean to be human? How do we know?There are many different versions of our creation story. This book tells the version according to modern science. It is a unique account, starting at the Big Bang and travelling right up to the emergence of humans as conscious intelligent beings, 13.8 billion years later. Chapter by chapter, it sets out the current state of scientific knowledge: the origins of spa.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xvii, 403 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color)
ISBN:9780198707646
0198707649

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