Conway Morris, S.

Life's solution : inevitable humans in a lonely universe / Simon Conway Morris. - Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003. - xxi, 464 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-445) and indexes.

The Cambridge Sandwich -- Looking for Easter Island -- Can we break the great code? -- Universal Goo: life as a cosmic principle? -- The origin of life: straining the soup or our credulity? -- Uniquely lucky? The strangeness of Earth -- Converging on the extreme -- Seeing convergence -- Alien convergences? -- The non-prevalence of humanoids? -- Evolution bound: the ubiquity of convergence? -- Towards a theology of evolution -- Last word.

0521827043 (hbk.)

2002035069

GBA3-71017


Evolution (Biology)--Philosophy.
Convergence (Biology)

QH360.5 / .C66 2003