Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Locating humans in the Universe
- 2 The race toward complexity
- 3 The stellar alchemy of metals
- 4 The formation of the planets
- 5 The emergence of life
- 6 The history of life
- 7 The awakening of intelligence
- 8 The other worlds
- 9 Perspectives
- APPENDIX A The standard model of the physics of elementary particles
- APPENDIX B Symmetry in physics
- APPENDIX C The strange role of time in relativity
- APPENDIX D The measurement of long time spans and the age of the Universe
- APPENDIX E The standard model of the Big Bang
- APPENDIX F The cause of the Big Bang and inflation
- APPENDIX G Chirality
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Figure index
- Table index
- Name index
- Subject index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Locating humans in the Universe
- 2 The race toward complexity
- 3 The stellar alchemy of metals
- 4 The formation of the planets
- 5 The emergence of life
- 6 The history of life
- 7 The awakening of intelligence
- 8 The other worlds
- 9 Perspectives
- APPENDIX A The standard model of the physics of elementary particles
- APPENDIX B Symmetry in physics
- APPENDIX C The strange role of time in relativity
- APPENDIX D The measurement of long time spans and the age of the Universe
- APPENDIX E The standard model of the Big Bang
- APPENDIX F The cause of the Big Bang and inflation
- APPENDIX G Chirality
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Figure index
- Table index
- Name index
- Subject index
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- Our Cosmic OriginsFrom the Big Bang to the Emergence of Life and Intelligence, pp. i - viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1998