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Life's solution : = inevitable humans in a lonely universe /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Life's solution :/ Simon Conway Morris.
Reminder of title:	inevitable humans in a lonely universe /
Author:	Conway Morris, S.
Description:	1 online resource (xxi, 464 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Convergence (Biology) -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511535499
ISBN:	9780511535499 (ebook)

Life's solution : = inevitable humans in a lonely universe /
Conway Morris, S.

Life's solution :inevitable humans in a lonely universe /Simon Conway Morris. - 1 online resource (xxi, 464 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

The Cambridge Sandwich -- Looking tor Easter Island -- Inherency: where is the ground plan in evolution? -- The navigation of protein hyperspace -- The game of life -- Eerie perfection -- Finding Easter Island -- Can we break the great code? -- The ground floor -- DNA: the strangest of all molecules? -- Universal goo: life as a cosmic principle? -- A Martini the size of the Pacific -- Goo from the sky -- Back to deep space -- A life-saving rain? -- The origin of life: straining the soup or our -- Credulity? -- Finding its path -- Problems with experiments -- On the flat -- Back to the test tube -- A sceptic's charter -- Uniquely lucky? The strangeness of Earth -- The shattered orb -- Battering the Earth -- The Mars express -- Making the Solar System -- Rare Moon -- Just the right size -- Jupiter and the comets -- Just the right place -- A cosmic fluke? -- Converging on the extreme -- Universal chlorophyll? -- The wheels of life? -- Fortean bladders -- A silken convergence -- Matrices and skeletons -- Play it again! -- Attacking convergence -- Convergence: on the ground, above the ground, under the ground -- Seeing convergence -- A balancing act -- Returning the gaze -- Eyes of an alien? -- Clarity and colour vision -- Universal rhodopsin -- Smelling convergence -- The echo of convergence -- Shocking convergence -- Hearing convergence -- Thinking convergence -- Alien convergences? -- Down in the farm -- Military convergence -- Convergent complexities -- Hearts and minds -- Honorary mammals -- Giving birth to convergence -- Warming to convergence, singing of convergence, chewing convergence -- The non-prevalence of humanoids? -- Interstellar nervous systems? -- The conceptualizing pancake -- The bricks and mortar of life -- Genes and networks -- Jack, the railway baboon -- Giant brains -- Grasping convergence -- Converging on the humanoid -- Converging on the ultimate -- Evolution bound: the ubiquity of convergence -- Ubiquitous convergence -- Respiratory convergence -- Freezing convergence, photosynthetic convergence -- The molecules converge -- Convergence and evolution -- Converging trends -- A possible research programme -- Towards a theology of evolution -- An evolutionary embedment -- Darwin's priesthood -- Heresy! Heresy -- Genetic fundamentalism -- A path to recovery? -- Convereine on convergence -- Last word.

The assassin's bullet misses, the Archduke's carriage moves forward, and a catastrophic war is avoided. So too with the history of life. Re-run the tape of life, as Stephen J. Gould claimed, and the outcome must be entirely different: an alien world, without humans and maybe not even intelligence. The history of life is littered with accidents: any twist or turn may lead to a completely different world. Now this view is being challenged. Simon Conway Morris explores the evidence demonstrating life's almost eerie ability to navigate to a single solution, repeatedly. Eyes, brains, tools, even culture: all are very much on the cards. So if these are all evolutionary inevitabilities, where are our counterparts across the galaxy? The tape of life can only run on a suitable planet, and it seems that such Earth-like planets may be much rarer than hoped. Inevitable humans, yes, but in a lonely Universe.

ISBN: 9780511535499 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

1442977
Convergence (Biology)

LC Class. No.: QH360.5 / .C66 2003

Dewey Class. No.: 576.8/01

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