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| Author/Contributor(s): |
Cockell, Charles S
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| Publisher: |
Basic Books
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| Date: |
06/19/2018
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| Binding: |
Hardcover
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| Condition: |
NEW
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"Cockell makes the ... argument that the universe constrains life, making its evolutionary outcomes quite predictable--in short, if we were to find, on some distant planet, something very much like a lady bug eating something very much like an aphid that had itself just been feeding on the sap of something very much like a flower, we shouldn't at all be surprised. Considering the vast pantheon of creatures that have existed on Earth ... it is tempting to think that the possibilities for life are limitless, and that a ladybug is a marvelous oddity. But ... Cockell [posits that] forms and shapes of life are guided by a limited sets of rules"--
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