| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 464 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-445) and indexes. |
| Contents |
The Cambridge Sandwich -- Looking for Easter Island -- Can we break the great code? -- Universal Goo: life as a cosmic principle? -- The origin of life: straining the soup or our credulity? -- Uniquely lucky? The strangeness of Earth -- Converging on the extreme -- Seeing convergence -- Alien convergences? -- The non-prevalence of humanoids? -- Evolution bound: the ubiquity of convergence? -- Towards a theology of evolution -- Last word. |
| Summary |
The eminent evolutionary palaeobiologist Simon Conway Morris challenges the accepted view that if the tape of life were wound back, the replay would be very different. He also asks: are we alone? |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Evolution (Biology) -- Philosophy.
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Evolution (Biology) -- Philosophy. |
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Convergence (Biology)
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Convergence (Biology) |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Conway Morris, S. (Simon). Life's solution. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003 0521827043 (DLC) 2002035069 (OCoLC)50761140 |
| ISBN |
0511078730 (electronic book) |
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9780511078736 (electronic book) |
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0511075626 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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9780511075629 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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0511077165 |
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9780511077166 |
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9780511535499 (ebook) |
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051153549X (ebook) |
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9780521827041 (hardback) |
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0521827043 (hardback) |
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0521827043 (Cloth) |
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