Life's solution : inevitable humans in a lonely universe
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Life's solution : inevitable humans in a lonely universe
Cambridge University Press, 2003
- : pbk.
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内容説明
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.
目次
- The Cambridge Sandwich
- 1. Looking for Easter Island
- 2. Can we break the great code?
- 3. Universal Goo: life as a cosmic principle?
- 4. The origin of life: straining the soup or our credulity?
- 5. Uniquely lucky? The strangeness of Earth
- 6. Converging on the extreme
- 7. Seeing convergence
- 8. Alien convergences?
- 9. The non-prevalence of humanoids?
- 10. Evolution bound: the ubiquity of convergence
- 11. Towards a theology of evolution
- 12. Last word.
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