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Title The future of life and the future of our civilization / edited by Vladimir Burdyuzha
Published Dordrecht : Springer, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 495 pages) : illustrations
Contents Life as a Space Phenomenon -- The Spread of Life Throughout the Cosmos -- Our Understanding of the Evolution of the Sun and its Death -- Planetary Cosmogony: Creation of Homeland for Life and Civilization -- Impact Phenomena: In the Laboratory, on the Earth, and in the Solar System -- The Origin of Life -- The Structural Regularities of Encoding of the Genetic Information in DNA Chromosomes -- The Origin of Life on the Earth: As a Natural Bioreactor Might Arise -- Volcanoes and Life: Life Arises Everywhere Volcanoes Appear -- Lessons of Life -- Human Evolution: Retrodictions and Predictions -- Man's Place in Nature: Human and Chimpanzee Behavior are Compared -- Creative Processes in Natural and Artificial Systems (Third Signal System of Man) -- Conservation of Life -- Human Alteration of Evolutionary Processes -- The Danger of Ruling Models in a World of Natural Changes and Shifts -- Ecological Limits of the Growth of Civilization -- The Potential of Conversion of Environmental Threats into Socioeconomic Opportunities by Applying an Ecohydrology Paradigm -- Advances in Space Meteorology Modeling and Predicting -- the Key Factor of Life Evolution -- Ocean Circulations and Climate Dynamics -- How We Are Far from Bifurcation Point of the Global Warming? -- Mankind Can Strive Against the Global Warming -- Can Advanced Civilization Preserve Biodiversity in Marine Systems? -- Can We Personally Influence the Future with Our Present Resources? -- World Energy Development Prospects -- Energy in the Universe and its Availability to Mankind -- Deuterium Explosion Power -- Accelerating Changes in our Epoch and the Role of Time-Horizons -- Mathematical and Spiritual Models: Scope and Challenges -- Future of our Civilization: Benefits and Perils of Advanced Science and Technology -- Dark Energy and Life's Ultimate Future -- Digital Aspects of Nature and Ultimate Fate of Life -- Spirals of Complexity -- Dynamics of Change -- How Can We Improve our Life? -- Nutrition, Immunity and Health -- Human Races and Evolutionary Medicine -- Bacteria in Human Health and Disease: From Commensalism to Pathogenicity -- Is there a Solution to the Cancer Problem? -- Are Embryonic Stem Cells Research and Human Cloning by our Future? -- Defeat of Aging -- Utopia or Foreseeable Scientific Reality -- Cardiology in XXI Century -- Cancer Problem in the Eyes of the Skin Multiparameter Electrophysiological Imaging -- Perspective of Quantum Medicine -- There are 6 Million Tons of Brain Matter in the World, Why do We Use it so Unwisely -- Conservation of Biological Diversity -- Dialogue among Civilizations as a New Approach for International Relations -- New Proposals to Conserve Life and Civilization -- What is our Future -- Eco-Ethics Must be the Main Science of the Future -- The Vital Tripod: Science, Religion and Humanism for Sustainable Civilization -- HIV/AIDS and the Future of the Poor, Illiterate and Marginalized Populations -- Ocean Settlements are a Step in the Future -- Futurology: Where is Future going? -- Towards Sustainable Future by Transition to the Next Level Civilization -- The Future of Solar System and Earth from Religious Point of View -- Are We Alone? -- The Life-Time of Technological Civilizations -- Calculating the Number of Habitable Planets in the Milky Way
Summary Contains articles on the future, in various aspects of our life. This book includes articles about: the spread of life throughout the cosmos, solar evolution, origin of life, cardiology, structural regularities of encoding in DNA chromosomes, preservation of biodiversity in marine systems, defeat of aging, the future of the poor, and more
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
In Springer e-books
Subject Conservation biology -- Congresses
Life -- Origin -- Congresses
Civilization -- Congresses
Science and civilization -- Congresses
Culture.
Philosophy.
Humanities.
Ethnology.
Anthropology.
Social sciences.
Evolution (Biology)
Medicine -- Philosophy.
Civilization.
Culture
Philosophy
Biological Phenomena
Genetic Phenomena
Publication Formats
Humanities
Publication Characteristics
Anthropology, Cultural
Phenomena and Processes
Anthropology
Social Sciences
Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena
Biological Evolution
Philosophy, Medical
Biogenesis
Metaphysics
Congresses
Life
Civilization
culture note.
philosophy.
humanities.
anthropology.
social sciences.
evolution.
metaphysics.
civilization.
culture (concept)
Biomédecine.
Sciences de la vie.
Social sciences
Philosophy
Medicine -- Philosophy
Humanities
Evolution (Biology)
Ethnology
Culture
Anthropology
Civilization
Conservation biology
Life -- Origin
Science and civilization
Genre/Form Electronic books
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Form Electronic book
Author Burdyuzha, V. (Vladimir)
Universität Frankfurt am Main.
ISBN 9781402049675
1402049676
9781402049682
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9781280634772
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9786610634774