Sydney Brenner's 10-on-10 : the chronicles of evolution



Electronic Book 216.73.216.10 (0)

2019

Sydney Brenner's 10-on-10 : the chronicles of evolution

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This publication consists of 11 lectures on evolution, as well as a foreword by Sydney Brenner and an introduction by Benjamin Seet. Sydney Brenner's foreword introduces the reader to the concept of evolution, while Benjamin Seet's introduction provides a brief biography of Sydney Brenner. The 11 lectures cover a wide range of topics in evolution, such as cosmology, chemistry, biology, palaeontology, archaeology, anthropology and sociology.

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Brenner, Sydney Human evolution Evolution (Biology)

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Life sciences

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Title
Sydney Brenner's 10-on-10 : the chronicles of evolution
Subject
  • Brenner, Sydney
  • Human evolution
  • Evolution (Biology)
Publisher
  • National Library Board Singapore, 2019
  • Wildtype Books, 2019
Contributors
  • Benjamin Seet
  • Sim Shuzhen
  • Sim, Shuzhen
  • Seet, Benjamin
Digital Description
application/pdf, col. ill.
Table of Contents
  • Foreword / Sydney Brenner -- Introduction / Benjamin Seet -- 1. Life in the habitable zone / John D. Barrow -- 2. From clay to the code of life / Hyman Hartman -- 3. Stepping up to life / Jack W. Szostak -- 4. When cells get creative / Giulia Rancati and Norman Pavelka -- 5. Finding strength in numbers / Detlev Arendt -- 6. There and back again / Per Ahlberg -- 7. Conquest of the land and sea / Byrappa Venkatesh -- 8. A salute to our Placoderm pioneers / John A. Long -- 9. Warming up to mammals / Harris Lewin -- 10. All in the family / Francis Thackeray -- 11. Lessons from our inner Neanderthal / Svante Pääbo -- 12. Wired for intelligence / Terrence Sejnowski -- 13. Getting smart about learning / Atsushi Iriki -- 14. More than just small talk / Tecumseh Fitch -- 15. The logic of cultural evolution / Roland Fletcher -- 16. Going with the (information) flow / Sander van der Leeuw -- 17. Lingo with a life of its own / N. J. Enfield -- 18. How we became modern / W. Brian Arthur -- 19. The creative destruction of evolution / Stefan Thurner -- 20. The challenge of the anthropocene / J. Stephen Lansing -- 21. Difficult questions in evolution / Eörs Szathmary -- 22. An evolving view on evolution / Gerd B. Müller -- 23. The humble view from inside evolution / Helga Nowotny -- Epilogue / Sydney Brenner.
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  • All rights reserved. Wildtype Media Group Pte Ltd, 2018