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Islands in the Cosmos: The Evolution of Life on Land (Life of the Past) - Hardcover

Buch 4 von 41: Life of the Past

Russell, Dale A.

 
9780253352736: Islands in the Cosmos: The Evolution of Life on Land (Life of the Past)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0253352738 ISBN 13: 9780253352736
Verlag: Indiana University Press, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

How is it that we came to be here? The search for answers to that question has preoccupied humans for millennia. Scientists have sought clues in the genes of living things, in the physical environments of Earth from mountaintops to the depths of the ocean, in the chemistry of this world and those nearby, in the tiniest particles of matter, and in the deepest reaches of space. In Islands of the Cosmos, Dale A. Russell traces a path from the dawn of the universe to speculations about our future on this planet. He centers his story on the physical and biological processes in evolution, which interact to favor more successful, and eliminate less successful, forms of life. Marvelously, these processes reveal latent possibilities in life's basic structure, and propel a major evolutionary theme: the increasing proficiency of biological function. It remains to be seen whether the human form can survive the dynamic processes that brought it into existence. Yet the emergence of the ability to acquire knowledge from experience, to optimize behavior, to conceptualize, to distinguish "good" from "bad" behavior all hint at an evolutionary outcome that science is only beginning to understand.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Dale A. Russell is senior curator of paleontology at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences and author of A Vanished World: The Dinosaurs of Western Canada and An Odyssey in Time: The Dinosaurs of North America.



Dale A. Russell is senior curator of paleontology at the North Carolina Museum ofNatural Sciences and author of A Vanished World: The Dinosaurs of Western Canada and An Odyssey inTime: The Dinosaurs of North America.

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Verlag
Indiana University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0253352738
ISBN 13 
9780253352736
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
453
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