HSPLS site
Login
My List - 0
Help
Search
My Account
Databases
HI Newspaper
eBooks/Audiobooks
Learning
PC Reservation
Reading Program
Basic
Advanced
Power
History
Search:
Title Browse
Author Browse
Subject Browse
Best Seller Browse
Music Title Browse
Video/DVD Title Browse
Journal/Newspaper Title Browse
Serial Title Browse
Series Browse (includes Bestseller List)
General Keyword
Title Keyword
Author Keyword
Subject Keyword
Name Keyword
Series Keyword
Score Title Browse
Talking Book Title Browse
Awards Note Browse
Bib No.
Barcode
Refine Search
> You're searching:
HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
Item Information
Holdings
Summary
More Content
More by this author
Arthur, Wallace, author.
Subjects
Life -- Origin.
Evolution (Biology)
Human evolution.
Life on other planets.
Exobiology.
Extraterrestrial beings.
Developmental biology.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Arthur, Wallace, author.
by title:
Life through time an...
MARC Display
Life through time and space / Wallace Arthur ; [illustrations by Stephen Arthur].
by
Arthur, Wallace, author.
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2017.
Subjects
Life -- Origin.
Evolution (Biology)
Human evolution.
Life on other planets.
Exobiology.
Extraterrestrial beings.
Developmental biology.
ISBN:
9780674975866 (cloth) :
0674975863 (cloth)
Description:
x, 277 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Contents:
I. From stars to embryos. Galaxy gazing ; Handy man and other early people ; A human with no nerves -- II. Cycles of life. From celestial furnaces ; Life cycles : animals versus stars ; The moment of conception -- III. In the beginning. A universe begins ; The opposite of a whimper ; Our internal evolution -- IV. Structures and functions. Spacious heavens ; The ecological theater ; Becoming an adult -- V. From boulders to brains. Rubble around the sun ; The very first animals ; Here comes the brain -- VI. Milestones of discovery. Exoplanets and aliens ; From Darwin to Darwinism ; Analyzing the embryo -- VII. Endings and enlightenment. The end of the world ; Extinction and how to avoid it ; From embryo to enlightenment.
Requests:
0
Summary:
We all had three origins: the origin of our own individual life, the origin of life on Earth, and the origin of our planetary home from a universe that initially had neither stars nor planets. This book tells the stories of these three origins and the evolutionary processes connected with them. It tells the stories in an intertwined way; and it considers the likelihood that intelligent life-forms on other planets exist - indeed are numerous - and had their own versions of these same three origins. The evolutionary story of the universe involves the origins of stars, planets, and life. The evolutionary story of life on Earth involves the origins of cells, animals, and intelligence. The evolutionary story of an intelligent alien living on an exoplanet somewhere in the Milky Way galaxy may have those same three origins, though here we're in the realm of hypothesis. But we come firmly back to Earth for the evolutionary story of the human embryo, which involves the origin of mulberries, sausages, and brains - though the first two of these are metaphorical creatures. These stories are not told in sequence; rather, the book intertwines them. It takes the form of a series of chapter-triplets, in each of which all of the stories feature. So we begin not with the big bang but rather by gazing into the night-time sky and using the constellation of Cassiopeia to locate extra-terrestrial life. And we end not with the rarefied skies of the distant future but with the prospects for human survival - or extinction - and the world-wide clash between intolerance and enlightenment, which may help to decide our ultimate fate.--
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Status
Hawaii State Library
Business, Science & Technology
576.83 Ar
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Kaimuki Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
576.83 Ar
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9884
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.