Life through Time and Space

✍ Scribed by Wallace Arthur; Stephen Arthur

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 294
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

All humans share three origins: the beginning of our individual lives, the appearance of life on Earth, and the formation of our planetary home. Wallace Arthur combines embryological, evolutionary, and cosmological perspectives to tell the story of life on Earth and its potential to exist elsewhere in the universe.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
I. From Stars To Embryos
1. Galaxy Gazing
2. Handy Man and Other Early People
3. A Human with No Nerves
II. Cycles Of Life
4. From Celestial Furnaces
5. Life Cycles: Animals versus Stars
6. The Moment of Conception
III. In The Beginning
7. A Universe Begins
8. The Opposite of a Whimper
9. Our Internal Evolution
IV. Structures And Functions
10. Spacious Heavens
11. The Ecological Theater
12. Becoming an Adult
V. From Boulders To Brains
13. Rubble Around the Sun
14. The Very First Animals
15. Here Comes the Brain
VI. Milestones Of Discovery
16. Exoplanets and Aliens
17. From Darwin to Darwinism
18. Analyzing the Embryo
VII. Endings And Enlightenment
19. The End of the World
20. Extinction and How to Avoid It
21. From Embryo to Enlightenment
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index