Download Islands in the Cosmos: The Evolution of Life on Land (Life of the Past) AudioBook Free
How is it that we came to be here? The search for answers compared to that question has preoccupied humans for millennia. Researchers have sought hints in the genes of living things; in the physical conditions of Globe, from mountaintops to the depths of the sea; in the chemistry of the world and those nearby; in the tiniest particles of matter; and in the deepest gets to of space. In Islands of the Cosmos, Dale A. Russell traces a path from the dawn of the world to speculation about our future upon this planet. He centers his account on the physical and biological processes in evolution, which interact to favor more successful and eliminate less successful forms of life. Marvelously, these processes reveal latent prospects in life's basic composition and propel a major evolutionary theme: the increasing skills of biological function. It remains to be observed whether the human being form may survive the dynamic functions that brought it into life. Yet the introduction of the capability to acquire knowledge from experience, to enhance habit, to conceptualize, to distinguish "good" from "bad" habit all hint at an evolutionary results that science is only beginning to understand. The book is published by Indiana University Press.
