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| 008 | 130403s1996 xxu eng d | ||
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_aDawkins, Richard. _91425 |
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_aRiver out of eden _cRichard Dawkins. |
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_aLondon _bPhoenix _c1995. |
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| 300 | _axv; 196 p. | ||
| 490 | 1 | _aScience masters. | |
| 520 | _aThe river of Dawkins's title is a river of DNA, flowing through time from the beginning of life on earth to the present - and onwards. Dawkins explains that DNA must be thought of as the most sophisticated information system imaginable: 'Life is just bytes and bytes of information,' he writes. Using this perspective, he describes the mechanisms by which evolution has taken place, gradually but inexorably, over a period of three thousand million years. It is the story of how evolution happens, rather than a narrative of what has actually happened in evolution. He discusses current views on the process of human evolution, including the idea that we all trace back to a comparatively recent African 'Eve', and speculates that the 'information explosion' that was unleashed on Earth when DNA came into being has almost certainly happened in other places in the universe. | ||
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