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
Summary
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?
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-445) and indexes
