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  title info:
    title: Cosmosapiens
    sub title: human evolution from the origin of the universe
  title info:
    title: Cosmo sapiens
  name:
    name part: Hands, John
    name part: 1945-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2016
    copyright date: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxvi, 674 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Specialist scientific fields are developing at incredibly swift speeds, but what can they really tell us about how the universe began and how we humans evolved to play such a dominant role on Earth? John Hands's ambitious quest is to bring together this scientific knowledge and evaluate without bias or preconception all the theories and evidence about the origin and evolution of matter, life, consciousness and humankind. This book provides a comprehensive account of current ideas such as cosmic inflation, dark energy, the selfish gene and neurogenetic determinism.
  table of contents: The quest -- Part One. The emergence and evolution of matter. Origin myths ; The emergence of matter : science's orthodox theory ; What science's orthodox theory fails to explain ; Other cosmological conjectures ; Problems facing cosmology as an explanatory means ; Reasonableness of cosmological conjectures ; Evolution of matter on a large scale ; Evolution of matter on a small scale ; Pattern to the evolution of matter ; Reflections and conclusions on the emergence and evolution of matter -- Part Two. The emergence and evolution of life. A planet fit for life ; Life ; The emergence of life. 1, Evidence ; The emergence of life. 2, Hypotheses ; Development of scientific ideas about biological evolution ; Evidence of biological evolution. 1, Fossils ; Evidence of biological evolution. 2, Analyses of living species -- Evidence of biological evolution. 3, Behaviour of living species ; The human lineage ; Causes of biological evolution : the current orthodox account ; Complementary and competing hypotheses. 1, Complexification ; Complementary and competing hypotheses. 2, Collaboration ; The evolution of consciousness ; Reflections and conclusions on the emergence and evolution of life -- Part Three. The emergence and evolution of humans. The emergence of humans ; Human evolution. 1, Primeval thinking ; Human evolution. 2, Philosophical thinking ; Human evolution. 3, Scientific thinking ; Uniqueness of humans ; Conclusions and reflections on the emergence and evolution of humans -- Part Four. A cosmic process. Limitations of science ; Reflections and conclusions on human evolution as a cosmic process.
  note: John Hands.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Life
    topic: Origin
  subject:
    topic: Exobiology
  subject:
    topic: Human evolution
  subject:
    topic: Evolution (Biology)
  subject:
    topic: Cosmology
  classification: QH325 .H347 2016
  classification: 577
  identifier: 9781468312447
  identifier: 1468312448
  identifier: 9780705649558
  identifier: 2015039899
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 151019
    record change date: 20170928112414.0
    record identifier: in00003608782