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Life's solution : inevitable humans in a lonely universe / Simon Conway Morris.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.Description: 1 online resource (xxi, 464 pages) : illustrations, mapContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0511078730
  • 9780511078736
  • 0511075626
  • 9780511075629
  • 0511077165
  • 9780511077166
  • 9780511535499
  • 051153549X
  • 9780521827041
  • 0521827043
  • 9780521603256
  • 0521603250
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Life's solution.DDC classification:
  • 576.8/01 22
LOC classification:
  • QH360.5 .C66 2003eb
Other classification:
  • 42.21
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Contents:
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.
Summary: 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?
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-445) and indexes.

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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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?

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