Life through time and space /
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 t...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
2017.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- I. From stars to embryos: Galaxy gazing
- Handy humans and other protopeople
- A human with no nerves
- II. Cycles of life: From celestial furnaces
- Life cycles: animals versus stars
- The moment of conception
- III. In the beginning: A universe begins
- The opposite of a whimper
- Our internal evolution
- IV. Structures and functions: Spacious heavens
- The ecological theater
- Becoming an adult
- V. From boulders to brains: Rubble around the sun
- The very first animals
- Here comes the brain
- VI. Milestones of discovery: Exoplanets and aliens
- From Darwin to Darwinism
- Analyzing the embryo
- VII. Endings and enlightenment: The end of the world
- Extinction and how to avoid it
- From embryo to enlightenment.