Origins : the Darwin College lectures / edited by A.C. Fabian.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fabian, A. C., 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cosmology.

Human evolution.

Social evolution.

Language and languages--Origin.

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

xiii, 168 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Other Title:

Darwin College lectures.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Summary:

In this volume, a distinguished team of international authorities reports on the latest research on the origins of the most fundamental features of our world. Martin Rees begins the book with a bang, the Big Bang that was the probable start of our universe. The contributors then focus on the origins of the solar system, material complexity and the human species. The volume ends with essays by John Maynard Smith on social behavior, Ernest Gellner on society and John Lyons on language. The first in The Darwin College Lectures, the book is derived from a highly successful series of lively public lectures which have been revised and illustrated for publication under the editorship of Professor A.C. Fabian of the Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge.

Contents:

Introduction / D. Hugh Mellor

Origin of the universe / Martin J. Rees

Origin of the solar system / David W. Hughes

Origins of complexity / Ilya Prigogine

Human origins and evolution / David Pilbeam

Origin of social behaviour / John Maynard Smith

Origins of society

Ernest Gellner

Origins of language / John Lyons.

Notes:

Lectures delivered during the Lent Term of 1986.

Includes bibliographies and index.

ISBN:

0521351898

OCLC:

18321950