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Biocentrism
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Robert Lanza |
Every now and then, a simple yet radical idea shakes the very foundations of knowledge. The startling discovery that the world was not flat challenged and ultimately changed the way people perceived … |
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Evolution
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Douglas Palmer |
"Evolution" recreates the 3.5 billion-year story of life on Earth in stunning detail through vivid full-color illustrations and graphics, the latest scientific information, and hundreds of photograph… |
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The end of the beginning
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Adam Frank |
"The Big Bang is dead and astrophysicist Adam Frank explains how our experience of time will change as a result"--
"The Big Bang is dead! It is no longer the beginning of time. Allowing us a peek in… |
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Darwin's Doubt
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Stephen C. Meyer |
Charles Darwin knew that there was a significant event in the history of life that his theory did not explain. In what is known today as the "Cambrian explosion," 530 million years ago many animals s… |
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Quantum aspects of life
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P. C. W. Davies |
xxvi, 442 p. : 24 cm |
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Chemical Evolution and the Origin of Life
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Horst Rauchfuss |
"Up to now, we do not have a generally accepted theory about the origin of life and about the process of development of life, we only have a great number of - to some extent even contradictory - hypo… |
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The Origins of Life
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Roy A. Gallant |
Explores the many different myths, theories, and experiments which explain the origin of life, including spontaneous generation, the development of planets, chemical evolution of matter, and the vari… |
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Talking about life
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Chris Impey |
"With over 350 planets now known to exist beyond the Solar System, spacecraft heading for Mars, and the ongoing search for extraterrestrial intelligence, this timely book explores current ideas about… |
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Creation
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Adam Rutherford |
"How scientists are closer than ever to not only uncovering the mystery of how life was created, but to replicating that moment Within the first billion years after this planet formed, a spark of lif… |
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Cosmosapiens
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John Hands |
"Specialist scientific fields are developing at incredibly swift speeds, but what can they really tell us about how the universe began and how we humans evolved to play such a dominant role on Earth?… |
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The origin and nature of life on Earth
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Eric Smith |
"Uniting the conceptual foundations of the physical sciences and biology, this ground-breaking multi-disciplinary book explores the origin of life as a planetary process. Combining geology, geochemis… |
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What is life?
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Addy Pross |
Seventy years ago, Erwin Schrodinger posed a simple, yet profound, question: 'What is life?'. How could the very existence of such extraordinary chemical systems be understood? This problem has puzzl… |
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The presence of the past
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Rupert Sheldrake |
Sheldrake argues for the theory of morphic resonance as an explanation of how living organisms arrive at their specific forms. The theory complements rather than opposes received evolutionary theor… |
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The Cosmic Connection
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Carl Sagan |
I came across this while watching *Cosmos* by Neil deGrasse Tyson. This was the book given to him by the legend himself, Sagan.
"This book is about science in its broadest human context, how scien… |
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Until the sun dies
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Robert Jastrow |
Life began on Earth about 4 billion years ago. Humans have 6 billion more ... until the sun dies to learn how and why the came to be - and how they can escape the inevitable end. Jastrow, internation… |
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Snowball Earth
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Gabrielle Walker |
Did the Earth once undergo a super ice age, one that froze the entire planet from the poles to the equator? In Snowball Earth, gifted writer Gabrielle Walker has crafted an intriguing global adventur… |
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Life on a Young Planet
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Andrew H. Knoll |
"Australopithecines, dinosaurs, trilobites - such fossils conjure up images of lost worlds filled with vanished organisms. But in the full history of life, ancient animals, even the trilobites, form … |
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