Islands in the Cosmos

Name: Islands in the Cosmos
Brand: INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
SKU: 395171
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DALE A. RUSSELL

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ISBN

9780253352736

Mladinska knjiga ID

395171

Leto izida

2009

Datum izida

15.07.2009

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ANG

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INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS

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DALE A. RUSSELL

Opis

The Evolution of Life on LandFor science, clues have been sought in the genes of living things, in the physical environments of Earth from mountaintops to the depths of the ocean, in the tiniest particles of matter, and in the deepest reaches of space. This title traces a path from the dawn of the universe to speculations about our future on this planet.How is it that we came to be here? Searching for answers to that question has preoccupied humans for millennia. For science, clues have been sought 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 in the Cosmos", Dale A. Russell traces a path from the dawn of the universe to speculations about our future on this planet. He has centred his story on the physical and biological processes in evolution, which interact to favour more successful and eliminate less successful forms of life. Marvellously, 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 behaviour, to conceptualize, to distinguish 'good' from 'bad' behaviour all hint at an evolutionary outcome that science is only beginning to understand.Foreword / Simon Conway Morris; Preface; Acknowledgments1. Time Travel; 2. The Extraterrestrial Pre-Hadean; 3. The Hadean Eon; 4. The Archean Eon; 5. The Proterozoic Eon; 6. Phanerozoic Marine Life; 7. Origin of Complex Terrestrial Ecosystems; 8. Toward the Coal Age; 9. Ascendancy of Life on Land; 10. Bridging the Eras; 11. The Natural History of Natural Selection; 12. An Age of Giants; 13. One Earth, Two Worlds; 14. The Modern Earth; 15. SynthesisEpilogue; References; Index