Our Cosmic Origins
From the Big Bang to the Emergence of Life and Intelligence
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 25 June 1998
- ISBN 9780521620383
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages344 pages
- Size 236x160x23 mm
- Weight 705 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 47 b/w illus. 9 tables 0
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Short description:
This 1998 book examines the remarkable story of the emergence of life and intelligence through the complex evolutionary history of the Universe.
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Our Cosmic Origins, first published in 1998, traces the remarkable story of the emergence of life and intelligence right through the complex evolutionary history of the Universe. Armand Delsemme weaves together a rich tapestry of science, bringing together cosmology, astronomy, geology, biochemistry and biology in this wide-ranging book. In following the complex, chronological story, we discover how the first elements formed in the early Universe, how stars and planets were born, how the first bacteria evolved towards a plethora of plants and animals, and how the coupling of the eye and brain led to the development of self-awareness and, ultimately, intelligence. Professor Delsemme concludes with the tantalising suggestion that the existence of alien life and intelligence is likely, and examines our chances of contacting it. This provocative book provides the general reader with an accessible and wide-ranging account of how life evolved on Earth and how likely it is to exist elsewhere in the Universe.
'I know of no other book that covers in such detail for a popular audience the grand sweep of cosmic evolution from the Big Bang to homo sapiens. Readers will find here an answer to the age-old question of our place in the universe as understood by modern science.' Steven J. Dick, US Naval Observatory, Washington
Table of Contents:
Preface Christian de Duve; Foreword; 1. Locating man in the universe; 2. The race towards complexity; 3. The stellar alchemy of metals; 4. The formation of the planets; 5. Emergence of life; 6. History of life; 7. Awakening of intelligence; 8. The other worlds; 9. Perspectives; Appendices; Glossary; References; Name index; Subject index.
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