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• Contributions from world-renowned writers and thinkers in the arts and sciences such as Stephen Jay Gould and Gillian Beer
• Darwin is the new Marx: evolution is a very trendy topic • Looks beyond biology to culture and the universe
Evolution is a fundamental process that cuts across boundaries of art and science and has beguiled thinkers for ages. This collection of articles about all aspects of evolution is a feast of challenging ideas, drawing together world-renowned thinkers and communicators with their own intriguing insights. This impressive cast of contributors takes on such questions as: Why and how do civilizations and societies change over time? Why do our cells develop the way they do? Why are some villages still villages while others have grown into vast cities? Can we learn from our evolutionary past to plan a better future for our health and society? Tracing the history of biological evolution, through the evolution of cultures, society, science and the universe, contributors such as Stephen Jay Gould, Freeman Dyson, and Martin Rees address these mysteries by considering parallels from all levels of life. From the evolution of the embryo to the evolution of a star, common threads emerge to tell a fascinating story with surprising implications.
Andrew Fabian is a Royal Society Research Professor at the Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge.
“An appetising smorgasbord … a pleasure to read.”
— Times Higher Education Supplement
Introduction Andrew C. Fabian;
1. On transmuting Boyle’s law to Darwin’s revolution Stephen Jay Gould;
2. The evolution of cellular development Lewis Wolpert;
3. The evolution of guns and germs Jared Diamond;
4. The evolution of London Richard Rogers;
5. The evolution of society Tim Ingold;
6. The evolution of the novel Gillian Beer;
7. The evolution of science Freeman Dyson;
8. The evolution of the universe Martin Rees;
Notes on contributors;
Acknowledgements;
Index.
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