| Description |
xii., 217 pages : illustrations, charts., ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Ch. 1. Foundations of the Universe -- Ch. 2. Building a Universe -- Ch. 3. Life as It Is Today -- Ch. 4. Prebiotic Earth: First Organic Compounds and First Informational Molecules -- Ch. 5. Life on Its Way -- Ch. 6. Has Life Originated Elsewhere and Will It End? -- Appendix 1. A Graphic Representation of Special Relativity -- Appendix 2. More on Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle -- Appendix 3. How Do We Know the Age of the Universe? -- Appendix 4. Eric Chaisson's View of Cosmic Evolution -- Appendix 5. Do the Universe and Life Have a Purpose and a Designer? |
| Summary |
The Origins of Life and the Universe is the culmination of a university science professor's search for understanding and is based on his experiences teaching the fundamental issues of physics, chemistry, and biology in the classroom. What is life? Where did it come from? How can understanding the origins of life on Earth help us understand the origins of the universe, and vice versa? These are questions that have occupied us all. This is a book, then, about the beginning of things -- of the universe, matter, stars, and planetary systems, and finally, of life itself -- topics of |
| Notes |
Includes Index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 201-202 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Life -- Origin.
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Cosmology.
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Organelle Biogenesis.
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Exobiology.
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| LC no. |
2002035166 |
| ISBN |
0231126549 cloth alkaline paper |
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0231126557 paperback alkaline paper |
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