In this volume, a distinguished team of international authorities reports on the latest research on the origins of the most fundamental features of our world. Martin Rees begins the book with a bang, the Big Bang that was the probable start of our universe. The contributors then focus on the origins of the solar system, material complexity and the human species. The volume ends with essays by John Maynard Smith on social behavior, Ernest Gellner on society and John Lyons on language. The first in The Darwin College Lectures, the book is derived from a highly successful series of lively public lectures which have been revised and illustrated for publication under the editorship of Professor A.C. Fabian of the Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge.
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In this volume, the first in The Darwin College Lectures Series, a distinguished team of international authorities reports on the latest research on the origins of the most fundamental features of our world. Martin Rees begins the book with a bang, the Big Bang that was the probable start of our expanding universe.
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- On the Origin of Species (Penguin Classics) by Charles Darwin on page 1, page 142, and page 162
- The Origin Of Species: 150th Anniversary Edition by Charles Darwin on page 1, page 142, and page 162
- The Solar System (3 Vol Set) (Magill's Choice) by Roger Smith on page 26, page 53, and page 67
- The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin on page 1, page 142, and page 162
- The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin on page 142, and page 161
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- Global Semiotics: by Thomas A. Sebeok in Back Matter
- The Emergence of Culture: The Evolution of a Uniquely Human Way of Life by Philip Chase in Back Matter
- Anthropological Linguistics: An Introduction (Language in Society) by William Foley in Back Matter
- Primate Behaviour: Information, Social Knowledge, and the Evolution of Culture (Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology) by Duane Quiatt in Back Matter
- How Homo Became Sapiens: On the Evolution of Thinking by Peter Gï¿1/2rdenfors in Back Matter
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