Author: British Library. Document Supply CentrePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conference proceedings
Languages : en
Pages : 870
Book Description
Index of Conference Proceedings
Author: British Library. Document Supply CentrePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conference proceedings
Languages : en
Pages : 870
Book Description
Publications of the Geological Survey
Author: Geological Survey (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Papers and Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting of the American Library Association Held at ...
Author: American Library Association. MeetingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library science
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Index of Conference Proceedings Received
Author: British Library. Document Supply CentrePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congresses and conventions
Languages : en
Pages : 984
Book Description
Technical Bulletin
Author: Monthly Bulletin
Author: United States. Department of Agriculture. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Contains the list of accessions to the library, formerly (1894-1909) issued quarterly in its series of "Bulletins."
New Publications
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Monthly Bulletin
Author: National Agricultural Library (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1360
Book Description
New Publications of the U.S. Geological Survey
Author: Geological Survey (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Islands in the Cosmos
Author: Dale A. RussellPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253023912
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
How is it that we came to be here? The search for answers to that question has preoccupied humans for millennia. Scientists have sought clues in the genes of living things, in the physical environments of Earth from mountaintops to the depths of the ocean, in the chemistry of this world and those nearby, in the tiniest particles of matter, and in the deepest reaches of space. In Islands of the Cosmos, Dale A. Russell traces a path from the dawn of the universe to speculations about our future on this planet. He centers his story on the physical and biological processes in evolution, which interact to favor more successful, and eliminate less successful, forms of life. Marvelously, these processes reveal latent possibilities in life's basic structure, and propel a major evolutionary theme: the increasing proficiency of biological function. It remains to be seen whether the human form can survive the dynamic processes that brought it into existence. Yet the emergence of the ability to acquire knowledge from experience, to optimize behavior, to conceptualize, to distinguish "good" from "bad" behavior all hint at an evolutionary outcome that science is only beginning to understand.