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How life began : evolution's three geneses

Author: Alexandre Meinesz
Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"The Bible states that God created the heavens and the Earth, all in about seven days roughly six thousand years ago. This episode in Genesis departs markedly from scientific theories developed over the last two centuries that hold that life appeared on Earth over 3 billion years ago in the form of bacteria, followed by unicellular organisms less than a billion years later. It is this version of genesis that  Read more...
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Alexandre Meinesz
ISBN: 9780226519319 0226519317
OCLC Number: 167517300
Notes: Translated from the French.
Description: viii, 282 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 24 cm.
Contents: Henri's cave --
On the origin of life on earth --
Papa, what's a bacterium? --
The vampire slug of the killer alga --
Vermeer and van Leeuwenhoek --
The densimeter --
The Lego game --
Candide, Jurassic Park, and Noah --
The end of the evolutionary string.
Responsibility: Alexandre Meinesz ; translated by Daniel Simberloff.

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Elucidates three origins, or geneses, of life - bacteria, cells, and multicellular organisms - and shows how evolution has sculpted life to its biodiversity through four main events: mutation,  Read more...
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"Meinesz offers a wonderful tale of how one scientist's tenacity and enthusiasm may bring to light not only the degradation of natural systems but also weaknesses in our approach to science.... Read more...

 
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