附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-445) and indexes.
The Cambridge Sandwich -- Looking for Easter Island -- Can we break the great code? -- Universal Goo: life as a cosmic principle? -- The origin of life: straining the soup or our credulity? -- Uniquely lucky? The strangeness of Earth -- Converging on the extreme -- Seeing convergence -- Alien convergences? -- The non-prevalence of humanoids? -- Evolution bound: the ubiquity of convergence? -- Towards a theology of evolution -- Last word.
摘要:The eminent evolutionary palaeobiologist Simon Conway Morris challenges the accepted view that if the tape of life were wound back, the replay would be very different. He also asks: are we alone?
