Ben-Barak, Idan

Summary: "What is life? How did it start? Long, long ago, no one knows exactly where or when, a tiny bubble formed that was a Little Bit Different. It was the first living cell. Everyone's ancestor. And so the story of life begins."--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2023

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Meyer, Stephen C.

Summary: Charles Darwin knew that there was a significant event in the history of life that his theory did not explain. In what is known today as the "Cambrian explosion," 530 million years ago many animals suddenly appeared in the fossil record without apparent ancestors in earlier layers of rock. In Darwin's Doubt Stephen C. Meyer tells the story of the mystery surrounding this explosion of animal...

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2013

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Summary: Through the Wormhole explores the deepest mysteries of existence, the questions that have puzzled mankind for eternity. The series brings together the brightest minds and best ideas from the very edges of science to reveal the extraordinary truth of our universe, and to raise even more philosophical questions.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Science 2014

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Deacon, Terrence William.

Summary: Examines the emergent processes that bridge the gap between organisms that think and have consciousness and those that do not and discusses the origins of life, information, and free will.

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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2012

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Summary: Explore the edges of space and time with Morgan Freeman as your guide in Through The Wormhole. Ten thought-provoking episodes comprise Season Three. Viewers will hold in their hands answers to some of the world's greatest mysteries.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Discovery Communications 2012

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Summary: Through the Wormhole explores the deepest mysteries of existence, the questions that have puzzled mankind for eternity. Who or what are we? Are we alone? How did life begin? What happened before? The series brings together the brightest minds and best ideas from the very edges of science to reveal the extraordinary truth of our universe.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Gaiam Americas 2011

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Summary: Physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking poses enduring scientific questions to teams of non-scientists to test their problem solving skills and summon their inner-genius, covering topics such as time travel, the existence of life on other planets, how the universe came to be, and the origins of life.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by PBS Distribution 2016

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England, Jeremy

Summary: "Why are we alive? Most things in the universe aren't. And if you trace the evolutionary history of plants and animals back far enough, you will find that, at some point, neither were we. Scientists have wrestled with this problem for centuries, and no one has been able to offer a credible theory. But in 2013, at just 30 years old, biophysicist Jeremy England published a paper that has utterly...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2020

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Summary: "Through the wormhole will explore the deepest mysteries of existence--the questions that have puzzled mankind for eternity. This series brings together the brightest minds and best ideas from the very edges of science--Astrophysics, Astrobiology, Quantum mechanics, String theory and more, to reveal the extraordinary truth of our Universe."--Container.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Discovery Communications 2011

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Impey, Chris.

Summary: Astrobiology, the study of life in space, is one of today's fastest growing fields of science. In this accessible and elegantly reasoned book, scholar and researcher Impey explores the foundations of this rapidly developing discipline, where it's going, and what it's likely to find. If Earth is not the only planet, it is so far the only living one that we know of. Impey reveals the incredible...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2007

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Summary: "The planet Earth was born out of chaos and disaster - and completely by chance. Episode 1 transports us to this breathtaking genesis, the violent past that created the fragile conditions for life itself."--Container.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Ambrose Video 2005

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Knoll, Andrew H.

Summary: An acclaimed Harvard geologist presents a narrative chronicle of the Earth's 4.6-billion-year evolution that places the environmental crises of today's world in a context that explains the planet's fragile capacity to support life.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Custom House 2021

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Carroll, Sean B.

Summary: Why is the world the way it is? How did we get here? Does everything happen for a reason or are some things left to chance? Philosophers and theologians have pondered these questions for millennia, but startling scientific discoveries over the past half century are revealing that we live in a world driven by chance. A Series of Fortunate Events tells the story of the awesome power of chance and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2020

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Ward, Peter Douglas

Contents: What is life? -- What is earth life? -- Life as we do not know it -- A recipe book of life -- The artificial synthesis of life -- Are there aliens already on earth? -- Panspermia: why there may be aliens throughout the solar system -- Mercury and Venus -- Fossils on the moon -- Mars -- Europa -- Titan -- Implications, ethics, and dangers -- A manifesto: send paleontologists to Mars and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2005

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Summary: Who would have predicted that a hot spot left over from the Big Bang would eventually lead to our galaxy, the solar system, the Earth--and to us? Origins explores how the universe and our planet began amid chaos and eventually gave birth to the first stirrings of life. Join cutting-edge scientists on a voyage deep into the Earth to find analogs to the earliest life on our planet, and travel a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2004

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Fortey, Richard A.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 1998

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Hazen, Robert M.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Joseph Henry Press 2005

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Kauffman, Stuart A.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1995

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Shubin, Neil

Summary: "The author of the best-selling Your Inner Fish now gives us a lively and accessible account of the great transformations in the history of life, that enable us to further understand whether our presence on this planet is an accident or inevitable. The great transformations in the history of life brought about whole scale shifts in how animals live and how their bodies are organized: the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2020

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Gribbin, John.

Summary: How did the universe begin? Where do galaxies come from? Where do the material particles we are made of come from? Today we have only provisional answers to such questions, but this will improve dramatically over the next ten years, predicts astronomer Gribbin. He focuses on what we think we know about ten issues and explains how cutting-edge research may yield solutions in the very near...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2006

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Morris, Richard

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Publisher / Publication Date: Four Walls Eight Windows 1999

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