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Sto caricando le informazioni... Islands in the Cosmos: The Evolution of Life on Land (Life of the Past)di Dale A. Russell
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. What does it take to become a wellspring of life? 'Islands in the Cosmos' is an encompassing review of our little blue planet. Russell is a professional paleontologist who reaches beyond his career in dinosauria to interpret much research from many branches of science. His steady hand through what could have been an overwhelming technical review yields an informative natural history of Earth. The author's clear prose not only exemplifies the diversification of life but also allows the reader to reflect upon how sparse the information garnered from the fossil record. This is readable science at its best, a lifetime masterpiece from a humanitarian. ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Appartiene alle Collane EditorialiLife of the Past (2009)
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. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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