The Origins of Life: From the Birth of Life to the Origin of Language by Smith, John Maynard
The Origins of Life: From the Birth of Life to the Origin of Language by Smith, John Maynard

The Origins of Life: From the Birth of Life to the Origin of Language

When John Maynard Smith and Eörs Szathmáry published The Major Transitions in Evolution, it was seen as...
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The Origins of Life: From the Birth of Life to the Origin of Language by Smith, John Maynard

The Origins of Life: From the Birth of Life to the Origin of Language

$82.30
The Origins of Life: From the Birth of Life to the Origin of Language by Smith, John Maynard

The Origins of Life: From the Birth of Life to the Origin of Language

$82.30
Author: John Maynard Smith
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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When John Maynard Smith and Eörs Szathmáry published The Major Transitions in Evolution, it was seen as a major work in biology. Nature hailed it as a book of "grand and daunting sweep...A splendid and rewarding tour de force." And New Scientist wrote that it captured "the essence of modern biology," calling it "an extremely significant book which, as a bonus, is very readable." Now, in The Origins of Life, Maynard Smith and Szathmáry have completely rewritten Transitions to bring their ideas to a wider audience of general readers. Here is a brilliant, original picture of how life evolved on earth, focusing primarily on six major transitionsdramatic breakthroughs in the way that information was passed between generations. The authors offer illuminating explorations of the origin of life itself, the arrival of the first cells with nuclei, the first reproduction by sexual means, the appearance of multicellular plants and animals, the emergence of cooperative animal societies, and
the birth of language.

The Origins of Life represents the thinking of two leading scientists on questions that engage us allhow life began and how it gradually evolved from tiny invisible cells into whales and trees and human beings.


Author: John Maynard Smith, Eörs Szathmáry
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 11/26/2000
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.29lbs
Size: 7.82h x 5.02w x 0.37d
ISBN: 9780192862099

About the Author

John Maynard Smith is an internationally renowned biologiest, widely respected for the originality of his ideas and quality of his thinking. He is a Professor in the School of Biological Sciences, University of Sussex. Eors Szathmary is a Professor at the Collegium Budapest, in Hungary.



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