Spires Of Form Glimpses Of Evolution

Scheffer, Victor B.

ISBN 10: 0198502710 / ISBN 13: 9780198502715

Verlag: University Of WAshington Press

Beschreibung

Copyright Date: 1983 Sm Quarto, , PP.152,

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 39181B15q

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Spires Of Form Glimpses Of Evolution
• Verlag: University Of WAshington Press
• ISBN-10: 0198502710
• ISBN-13: 9780198502715
• Einband: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Text Figures
• Auflage: First Edition.
• Zustand: Very Good
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Dust Jacket

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Inhaltsangabe

Many people know more about the planets Venus and Mars than they do about our home planet, Earth. Unique in our solar system, and so far as we know in the Universe itself, the Earth has been evolving for the past five billion years, and is the result of the dynamic interplay of astronomical, physical, and chemical forces ranging from the vast to the barely perceptible. The evolution of the earth has never been predictable. Life has come very close to being extinguished many times. After each such crisis, the survivors and their genes have diversified and grown in number to exploit all opportunities. Without such traumas it is hardly likely that evolution's pace could have reached its present advanced level; that of conscious life capable of changing the world, contemplating it, and in doing so changing itself at geologically stupendous rates. In this text, Stephen Drury explores how such a seemingly fragile world could have been formed and developed.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Stephen Drury teaches in the Department of Earth Sciences in The Open University. The author of Images of the Earth: A Guide to Remote Sensing, he lives in the United Kingdom.