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Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"An unforgettable journey into our ancient past, containing powerful lessons to learn about our future. Today there are 20 million species on our planet. Yet what we see is just a snapshot in time. 99% of earth's inhabitants are lost to our deep past. The story of what happened to these lineages--their rise and their fall--is truly remarkable. Accompanying the ground-breaking Netflix series, Life on our Planet uses the latest technology to bring long-extinct...
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The study of human origins is one of the most fascinating branches of anthropology. Yet it has rarely been considered by social or cultural anthropologists, who represent the largest subfield of the discipline. In this powerful study Alan Barnard aims to bridge this gap. Barnard argues that social anthropological theory has much to contribute to our understanding of human evolution, including changes in technology, subsistence and exchange, family...
52) Origins of life
Publisher
Razor Digital Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
A visual interpretation of the theory that life originated in the ocean four billion years ago, showing the diversification of life forms up until the first vertebrate emerged onto dry land.
Author
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"I'll begin with a challenging question: Why should anyone want to know about the origin of life? The answers will vary from one person to the next, but the simplest answer is curiosity. Anyone reading this introduction is curious because they wonder how life could have begun on the Earth, but there is more to it than that. My friend Stuart Kauffman wrote a book with the title At Home in the Universe. The title refers to a deep sense of satisfaction...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A breakout bestseller in Italy, now available for American readers for the first time, Genesis: The Story of How Everything Began is a short, humanistic tour of the origins of the universe, earth, and life-drawing on the latest discoveries in physics to explain the seven most significant moments in the creation of the cosmos"--
Tonelli reveals the extraordinary story of our genesis: from the origins of the universe, to the emergence of life on Earth,...
Author
Series
Earth chronicles volume III
Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
[1985]
Language
English
Description
Thousands of years ago, the Earth was a battlefield. These were the wars that would shape man's destiny -- terrible conflicts that began lifetimes earlier on another planet. Parting the mists of time and myth, the internationally renowned scholar Zecharia Sitchin takes us back in this volume to the violent beginnings of the human story, when gods - not men - ruled the Earth. In a spellbinding reconstruction of epic events preserved in legends and...