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The fifth miracle : the search for the origin and meaning of life / Paul Davies
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TextPublication details: New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, c1999Description: 304 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN: - 0684837994
- 9780684837994
- 068486309X (pbk.)
- 9780684863092 (pbk.)
- ARCH YNDC 576.83 D255F
- QH325 .D345 1999
Contents:
Summary: Explains our current knowledge about life's origins, focusing on recently discovered "superbugs" which may have arrived here on asteroids, and arguing that life grew from primitive information-processing systems
ch. 1. Meaning of life -- ch. 2. Against the tide -- ch. 3. Out of the slime -- ch. 4. Message in the machine -- ch. 5. Chicken-and-egg paradox -- ch. 6. Cosmic connection -- ch. 7. Superbugs -- ch. 8. Mars: red and dead? -- ch. 9. Panspermia -- ch. 10. Bio-friendly universe?
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| ARCH YNDC 576.8 S677E Evidence and evolution : the logic behind the science / | ARCH YNDC 576.82 D375D Debating design : from Darwin to DNA / | ARCH YNDC 576.82 W899D Doubts about Darwin : a history of intelligent design / | ARCH YNDC 576.83 D255F The fifth miracle : the search for the origin and meaning of life / | ARCH YNDC 599.9 T724H Human understanding | ARCH YNDC 599.9 W129H History and the idea of mankind, | ARCH YNDC 610.9 P844G The greatest benefit to mankind : a medical history of humanity from antiquity to the present / |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-291) and index
ch. 1. Meaning of life -- ch. 2. Against the tide -- ch. 3. Out of the slime -- ch. 4. Message in the machine -- ch. 5. Chicken-and-egg paradox -- ch. 6. Cosmic connection -- ch. 7. Superbugs -- ch. 8. Mars: red and dead? -- ch. 9. Panspermia -- ch. 10. Bio-friendly universe?
Explains our current knowledge about life's origins, focusing on recently discovered "superbugs" which may have arrived here on asteroids, and arguing that life grew from primitive information-processing systems
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