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Life´s Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe
Simon Conway Morris
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Description for Life´s Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe
hardcover. A controversial challenge to current views of evolution, for the general reader. Num Pages: 486 pages, 50 b/w illus. BIC Classification: PDA; PDZ; RBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 926. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
The assassin's bullet misses, the Archduke's carriage moves forward, and a catastrophic war is avoided. So too with the history of life. Re-run the tape of life, as Stephen J. Gould claimed, and the outcome must be entirely different: an alien world, without humans and maybe not even intelligence. The history of life is littered with accidents: any twist or turn may lead to a completely different world. Now this view is being challenged. Simon Conway Morris explores the evidence demonstrating life's almost eerie ability to navigate to a single solution, repeatedly. Eyes, brains, tools, even culture: all are very ... Read more
The assassin's bullet misses, the Archduke's carriage moves forward, and a catastrophic war is avoided. So too with the history of life. Re-run the tape of life, as Stephen J. Gould claimed, and the outcome must be entirely different: an alien world, without humans and maybe not even intelligence. The history of life is littered with accidents: any twist or turn may lead to a completely different world. Now this view is being challenged. Simon Conway Morris explores the evidence demonstrating life's almost eerie ability to navigate to a single solution, repeatedly. Eyes, brains, tools, even culture: all are very ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
486
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521827041
SKU
KSG0034362
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About Simon Conway Morris
Professor of Evolutionary Palaeobiology at the University of Cambridge, he is also the author of The Crucible of Creation (1998).
Reviews for Life´s Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe
'Life's Solution is an absorbing presentation written to challenge and inform the mind of the reader. Life's Solution is a superb contribution to both Contemporary Philosophy Studies academic reference collections and University level and Evolutionary Biology reading lists.' Library Bookwatch 'Life's Solution builds a forceful case for the predictability of evolutionary outcomes, their broad phenotypic manifestations. The case rests on ... Read more