Essay Review ID: CBB000110306

The Cambrian Explosion (of Books on the Origin of Life) (2000)

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Description Essay review of Steven J. Dick, Life on Other Worlds: The 20th Century Extraterrestrial Life Debate (1998); Freeman Dyson, Origins of Life, 2nd ed. (1999); Iris Fry, The Emergence of Life on Earth: A Historical and Scientific Overview (2000); Noam Lahav, Biogenesis: Theories of Life's Origin (1999); John Maynard Smith; Eörs Szathmáry, The Origins of Life: From the Birth of Life to the Origin of Language (1999).


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Authors & Contributors
Strick, James E.
Bill Mesler
Cleaves, H. James, II
Christie, James E.
Michael Marshall
Minelli, Alessandro
Journals
Mefisto: Rivista di medicina, filosofia, storia
Science in Context
Perspectives on Science
Perspectives in Biology and Medicine
Journal of the History of Biology
East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal
Publishers
World Scientific
W. W. Norton & Co.
University of Chicago Press
Thoemmes
Springer International
Harvard University Press
Concepts
Biology
Biogenesis; origin of life; spontaneous generation
Extraterrestrial life; exobiology
Language and languages
Evolution
Natural philosophy
People
Darwin, Charles Robert
Wenner, Adrian
Trembley, Abraham
Réaumur, René Antoine Ferchault de
Petrus de Abano
Huxley, Thomas Henry
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
17th century
21st century
18th century
16th century
Places
Great Britain
Italy
France
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