Life's Solution
Challenges the view that the course life on earth has taken is due to a series of accidents. Conway Morris explores the evidence demonstrating life's almost eerie ability to navigate to a single solution, repeatedly. Eyes, brains, tools, and even culture have all evolved separately on many occasions. So if these are all evolutionary inevitabilities, it follows that similar creatures may have evolved in other galaxies. However, this process can only take place on a suitable planet, and it seems that Earth-like planets may be rare. Inevitable humans, but in a lonely Universe.
The Cambridge Sandwich
1. Looking for Easter Island
2. Can we break the great code?
3. Universal Goo: life as a cosmic principle?
4. The origin of life: straining the soup or our credulity?
5. Uniquely lucky? The strangeness of Earth
6. Converging on the extreme
7. Seeing convergence
8. Alien convergences?
9. The non-prevalence of humanoids?
10. Evolution bound: the ubiquity of convergence
11. Towards a theology of evolution
12. Last word
Professor of Evolutionary Palaeobiology at the University of Cambridge, he is also the author of The Crucible of Creation.
| Pm Supplier | CUP/ Cambridge University Press |
|---|---|
| Pm Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Pm Isbn 10 | 0521827043 |
| Pm Isbn 13 | 9780521827041 |
| Pm Publication Date | 2003-09-04 |
| Pm Width | 152 |
| Pm Height | 29 |
| Pm Author | Conway Morris,Simon |
| Pm Longness | 228 |
- Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe
- Key Info: B/w photos, figs
- Author: Conway Morris,Simon
- Page Count: 464
- Publication Date: 2004-11-08
Life's Solution
- Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe
- Key Info: B/w photos, figs
- Author: Conway Morris,Simon
- Page Count: 464
- Publication Date: 2004-11-08
