The Crucible of Creation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Crucible of Creation write by Simon Conway Morris. This book was released on 1998. The Crucible of Creation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Paleontologist Simon Conway Morris provides a guided tour of the world's richest treasure trove of fossils--a fantastically rich deposit of bizarre and bewildering Cambrain fossils, located in Western Canada. 4 plates. 90 linecuts.
Life's Solution
Life's Solution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Life's Solution write by Simon Conway Morris. This book was released on 2003-09-04. Life's Solution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History write by Stephen Jay Gould. This book was released on 1990-09-17. Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "[An] extraordinary book. . . . Mr. Gould is an exceptional combination of scientist and science writer. . . . He is thus exceptionally well placed to tell these stories, and he tells them with fervor and intelligence."—James Gleick, New York Times Book Review High in the Canadian Rockies is a small limestone quarry formed 530 million years ago called the Burgess Shale. It hold the remains of an ancient sea where dozens of strange creatures lived—a forgotten corner of evolution preserved in awesome detail. In this book Stephen Jay Gould explores what the Burgess Shale tells us about evolution and the nature of history.
The Nation's Crucible
The Nation's Crucible - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Nation's Crucible write by Peter J. Kastor. This book was released on 2008-10-01. The Nation's Crucible available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1803 the United States purchased Louisiana from France. This seemingly simple acquisition brought with it an enormous new territory as well as the country’s first large population of nonnaturalized Americans—Native Americans, African Americans, and Francophone residents. What would become of those people dominated national affairs in the years that followed. This book chronicles that contentious period from 1803 to 1821, years during which people proposed numerous visions of the future for Louisiana and the United States. The Louisiana Purchase proved to be the crucible of American nationhood, Peter Kastor argues. The incorporation of Louisiana was among the most important tasks for a generation of federal policymakers. It also transformed the way people defined what it meant to be an American.
Fossils of the Burgess Shale
Fossils of the Burgess Shale - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fossils of the Burgess Shale write by Simon Conway Morris. This book was released on 1985. Fossils of the Burgess Shale available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This publication, designed for the public, describes the discovery of the Burgess shale, recent work on its formation, and the flora and fauna found in it. The major animal groups are described and illustrated. The scientific significance of the shale is explained.
