Life's solution : inevitable humans in a lonely universe /

The eminent evolutionary palaeobiologist Simon Conway Morris challenges the accepted view that if the tape of life were wound back, the replay would be very different. He also asks: are we alone?

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Conway Morris, S. (Simon)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Temas:
Evolution (Biology) > Philosophy.
Convergence (Biology)
Évolution (Biologie) > Philosophie.
Convergence (Biologie)
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Evolution.
Konvergenz
Evolutionstheorie
Evolutietheorie.
Convergente evolutie.
Filosofische aspecten.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Cambridge sandwich
  • Looking for Easter Island
  • Can we break the great code?
  • Universal goo : life as a cosmic principle?
  • The origin of life : straining the soup or our credulity?
  • Uniquely lucky? The strangeness of Earth
  • Converging on the extreme
  • Seeing convergence
  • Alien convergences?
  • The non-prevalence of humanoids?
  • Evolution bound : the ubiquity of convergence?
  • Towards a theology of evolution
  • Last word.

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