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Origins : cosmos, earth, and mankind
- Title
- Origins : cosmos, earth, and mankind / Hubert Reeves [and others] ; foreword by Joseph Silk.
- Publication
- New York : Arcade Pub. : Distributed by Little, Brown, [1998], ©1998.
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| Text | Request in advance | QB981 .P5813 1998 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Reeves, Hubert.
- Description
- viii, 210 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- In this relatively brief but potent book, three eminent scientists - an astrophysicist, an organic chemist, and an anthropologist - ponder and discuss some of the basic questions that have obsessed humankind through the ages, and offer thoughtful, enlightening answers, in terms the layperson can easily understand.
- Provocative, informative, free of technical or scientific jargon, Origins, which is structured as a play in three acts, offers compelling insights into how the universe, life on Earth, and the human species began and evolved, based on the most up-to-date knowledge and in the light of the most recent scientific discoveries.
- Uniform Title
- Plus belle histoire du monde. English.
- Subjects
- Contents
- Act 1. The Universe. Scene 1. Chaos. Scene 2. The Universe Gets Organized. Scene 3. Earth -- Act 2. Life. Scene 1. The Primitive Soup. Scene 2. Life Gets Organized. Scene 3. The Explosion of the Species -- Act 3. Mankind. Scene 1. The African Cradle. Scene 2. Our Ancestors Get Organized. Scene 3. The Human Conquest.
- ISBN
- 155970408X
- LCCN
- 97027830
- OCLC
- ocm37373529
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries