Henry Gee - Böcker

En gång för länge sedan kollapsade en jättestjärna. Så börjar Henry Gee sin berättelse om livet på jorden. Sedan tar han med läsaren på en halsbrytande, underhållande och upplysande odyssé genom 4,6 miljarder år av geologisk och evolutionär histor...

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Winner of the Royal Society Science Book. 'Exhilaratingly whizzes through billions of years . . . Gee is a marvellously engaging writer' - The Times 4.6 billion years of the story of life on Earth, in twelve concise chapters. Brief, brilliant and ...

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'Brilliant' - The Times 'Hugely informative and entertaining' - New Scientist 'Put this at the head of your reading lists immediately' - Eric Idle From the winner of the 2022 Royal Society Science Book Prize, a thrilling and thought-provoking acco...

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'Exhilaratingly whizzes through billions of years . . . Gee is a marvellously engaging writer, juggling humour, precision, polemic and poetry to enrich his impossibly telescoped account . . . [making] clear sense out of very complex narrative...

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In Deep Time, Henry Gee, assistant editor of Nature, shows us that everything we think we know about evolution is wrong. For a long time, popular scientists have told us that by looking at a fossilised bone we could tell whether it belonged to our...

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The idea of a missing link between humanity and our animal ancestors predates evolution and popular science and actually has religious roots in the deist concept of the Great Chain of Being. Yet the metaphor has lodged itself in the contemporary i...

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The idea of a missing link between humanity and our animal ancestors predates evolution and popular science and actually has religious roots in the deist concept of the Great Chain of Being. Yet the metaphor has lodged itself in the contemporary i...

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Over the past decade, fossil finds from China have stunned the world, grabbing headlines and changing perceptions with a wealth of new discoveries. Many of these finds were first announced to English speakers in the journal "Nature". "Rise of the ...

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Over the past decade, fossil finds from China have stunned the world, grabbing headlines and changing perceptions with a wealth of new discoveries. Many of these finds were first announced to English speakers in the journal Nature.Rise of the Drag...

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"Nature" has published news about the history of life ever since its first issue in 1869, in which T.H. Huxley ("Darwin's bulldog") wrote about Triassic dinosaurs. In recent years, the field has enjoyed a tremendous flowering due to new investigat...

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"Nature" has published news about the history of life ever since its first issue in 1869, in which T.H. Huxley ("Darwin's bulldog") wrote about Triassic dinosaurs. In recent years, the field has enjoyed a tremendous flowering due to new investigat...

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Our understanding of vertebrate origins and the backbone of human history evolves with each new fossil find and DNA map. Many species have now had their genomes sequenced, and molecular techniques allow genetic inspection of even non-model organis...

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Our understanding of vertebrate origins and the backbone of human history evolves with each new fossil find and DNA map. Many species have now had their genomes sequenced, and molecular techniques allow genetic inspection of even nonmodel organism...

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Jacob's Ladder delivers a remarkably lucid explanation of what the sequencing of the human genome really tells us. Decoding the sequence, evolutionary biologist Henry Gee shows, is just the beginning: seeing the letters and words. The next frontie...

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"A marvellously engaging writer." The Times Discover the story of life on our planet as you have never seen it before, from winner of the Royal Society Science Book Prize, Henry Gee. The perfect gift for curious minds. In 30 bite-size chapters, Na...

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In ‘Humans Are Doomed To Go Extinct’, an article in Scientific American published in November 2021, veteran Nature editor Dr Henry Gee predicted that Homo sapiens is on a rapid one-way ride to extinction. The article provoked media cov...

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'Brilliant' - The Times'Hugely informative and entertaining' - New Scientist'Put this at the head of your reading lists immediately' - Eric IdleFrom the winner of the 2022 Royal Society Science Book Prize, a thrilling and thought-provoking account...

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