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John Maynard Smith
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Life is a long, strange trip, and in The Origins of Life, John Maynard Smith and Eörs Szathmáry blast you through its three-and-a-half-billion-year history at breathtaking pace. Life, we learn, is information, transmitted in ever m
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Jonathan Irving Lunine
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This is an outstanding overview of the history of the Earth from a unique planetary perspective for introductory courses in the earth sciences. The book approaches Earth history as an evolution, encompassing the origin of the cosmos through the inner wor
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Richard Fortey
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"The excitement of discovery cannot be bought, or faked, or learned from books," London Natural History Museum senior paleontologist Richard Fortey writes in Life. The first chapter, an engrossing account of an Arctic fossil-hunting expe
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The Young Gaia Atlas of Earthcare: An Illustrated Reference Guide to Looking After Our Planet Rate 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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Gaia Hypothesis
(1969) Proposed by J. Lovelock: Earth as a whole should be regarded as a living organism and that biological processes stabilize the environment.