Evolution: Society, Science and the Universe

Book Overview

Cutting across boundaries of art and science, evolution is a fundamental process that has beguiled thinkers through the ages. This collection draws together world-renowned thinkers and communicators... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521572088
• ISBN13: 9780521572088
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 185 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.2" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

Eight Enlightening Essays on Evolution. Engaging. Excellent.

In this slim volume is a gathering of eight enlightening essays that have, as their thematic nexus, the concept of evolution. The contributors have written on evolution in terms of: biology and its historical roots (an essay that brought me back to a unique course I took in my freshman year at Harpur College SUNY); devolopment of the embryo; human history since the last ice age; the city; developmental biology and the emergence of human capacities; the novel; the cosmos; and the unfolding, tool-driven revolutionary birth of science. This is informative intellectual thinking at its best. Highly recommended. Reviewed by Gerry Stern, founding partner, Stern & Associates and HRconsultant.com InfoCenter.