The emergence of everything : how the world became complex /

Framing the West argues that photography was intrinsic to British territorial expansion and settlement on the northwest coast. Williams shows how male and female settlers used photography to establish control over the territory and its indigenous inhabitants, as well as how native peoples eventually...

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Main Author: Morowitz, Harold J.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Title Page; Copyright Page; Preface; Contents; The Emergence of Emergence; Ideas of Emergence; The Twenty-Eight Steps; The First Emergence: The Primordium- Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?; The Second Step: Making a Nonuniform Universe; The Emergence of Stars; The Periodic Table; Planetary Accretion: The Solar System; Planetary Structure; The Geospheres; The Emergence of Metabolism; Cells; Cells with Organelles; Multicellularity; The Neuron; Animalness; Chordateness; Crossing the Geospheres: From Fish to Amphibians; Crossing the Geospheres: From Fish to Amphibians; Reptiles.
  • MammalsThe Niche; Arboreal Mammals; Primates; The Great Apes; Hominization and Competitive Exclusion in Hominids; Toolmaking; Language; Agriculture; Technology and Urbanization; Philosophy; The Spirit; Analyzing Emergence; Athens and Jerusalem; Science and Religion; The Task Ahead; Index.