Islands in the Cosmos: The Evolution of Life on Land

by Dale A. Russell

How is it that we came to be here? The search for answers to that question has preoccupied humans for millennia. Scientists have sought clues in the genes of living things, in the physical environments of Earth from mountaintops to the depths of the ocean, in the chemistry of this world and those nearby, in the tiniest particles of matter, and in the deepest reaches of space. In Islands of the Cosmos, Dale A. Russell traces a path from the dawn of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253352738
• ISBN13: 9780253352736
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 453 Pages
• Weight: 2.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.2" x 9.2"