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Alexander Graham Cairns-Smith
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The mysteries surrounding the origins of life on earth are written in detective story fashion by a world famous scientist in this popular version of Genetic Takeover, originally published in 1982. more]
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Genetic Takeover and the Mineral Origins of Life Rate 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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Michael D. Lemonick
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The first planet around a sunlike star was finally detected in 1995, after decades of false alarms. It was inevitable that within a couple of years a flood of books on extrasolar planets would gush forth. Michael Lemonick is the senior science writer at
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Daniel Clement Dennett
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In Consciousness Explained, Daniel Dennett insists on the importance of considering consciousness from the evolutionary point of view. Darwin's Dangerous Idea elaborates upon his theory of the evolution of consciousness, but also compendiou
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Jeremy Narby, Jeremy Nanby
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A personal adventure, a fascinating study of anthropology and ethnopharmacology, and, most important, a revolutionary look at how intelligence and consciousness come into being. This adventure in science and imagination, which the Medical Tri
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Jeffrey H. Schwartz
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Despite the title, Darwin's Origin of Species doesn't really explain how new species are born. Scientists have been struggling with that thorny problem ever since its publication, and the recent revoluti
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P. C. W. Davies
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How did life begin? Did it start here, by blind chance or by necessity, or was Earth seeded by extraterrestrial visitors? (And, if so, how did they arise?) Physicist and science writer Paul Davies tackles these heavy questions and more in The F
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Genetic Takeover
The original replicator (i.e., life) probably was not DNA; possibly a primitive genetic system such as clay or crystal medium, which RNA replaced.