The Emergence of Everything - Morowitz, Harold J. (Clarence Robinson Professor of Biology and Natu
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A sweeping tour of the universe, a tour with 28 stops, each one highlighting a particularly important moment of emergence--the emergence of the stars, the birth of the elements, the periodic table, and the appearance of solar systems and planets, the emergence of living cells, animals, vertebrates, reptiles, and mammals, leading to the great apes and the appearance of humanity. He also examines tool making, the evolution of language, the invention of agriculture and technology, and the birth of cities.

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A sweeping tour of the universe, a tour with 28 stops, each one highlighting a particularly important moment of emergence--the emergence of the stars, the birth of the elements, the periodic table, and the appearance of solar systems and planets, the emergence of living cells, animals, vertebrates, reptiles, and mammals, leading to the great apes and the appearance of humanity. He also examines tool making, the evolution of language, the invention of agriculture and technology, and the birth of cities.
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Harold J. Morowitz is Clarence Robinson Professor of Biology and Natural Philosophy at George Mason University and the former Director of the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, in Fairfax, Virginia. A leading figure in the study of complexity, he was Editor-in-Chief of the journal Complexity and is co-chair of the science board of the Santa Fe Institute. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Discover, The Washington Post, The Sciences, and Psychology Today.