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Origins & Evolution: Evolution of Our Universe and Planet, and the Origins of Life and Meaning
The concept of “evolution” has historically been applied primarily to the origins and adaptation of biological traits and species.
But what if the notion of evolution is much more pervasive and multifaceted?
In his groundbreaking earlier book, Active Biological Evolution, Frank Laukien made a startling, evidence-based While random mutations were the primary change mechanism of evolution during early life and remain relevant in pathobiology, in the era of modern biology...
Adaptive evolution via genomic and epigenetic changes prior to Darwinian selection is primarily the result of active cell biology processes.
In short, Laukien The processes of adaptive evolution are, themselves , evolving.
In Origins & Evolution, his complementary follow-up work, Laukien continues to challenge conventional wisdom and offer novel insights. Employing the framework of evolution, he explores feedback-driven processes in the realms of cosmological, planetary, geological, and climate evolution and their effects on life and organismal evolution.
In Origins & Evolution, Laukien delves origins of molecular evolvability and cellular life, as well as of astrobiology with putative exoplanet lifeEarth’s tumultuous planetary evolution with frozen “Snowball Earth” episodes and glaciation-free warm periods with carbon dioxide levels five times higher than todayThe evolutionary impact of six mass extinctions due to major volcanic and asteroid activity in the last 600 million years and the implied chances of future mass extinctionsOur evolving climate—with over 50 near-regular Northern ice ages in the last 3 million years, along with the unpredictable consequences of anthropogenic climate changeEusociality in homo sapiens—the only highly intelligent species with a technological civilization that has evolved on Earth in 3.8 billion years among 100 million speciesThe concept of a lifetime of species in evolution, from ten thousands to millions of years, and the implications for the evolution and design of future hominin species and hybrids
A must-read for anyone pondering the evolutionary history and future of life on our planet, as well as of Homo sapiens and of the meaning of our existence.
But what if the notion of evolution is much more pervasive and multifaceted?
In his groundbreaking earlier book, Active Biological Evolution, Frank Laukien made a startling, evidence-based While random mutations were the primary change mechanism of evolution during early life and remain relevant in pathobiology, in the era of modern biology...
Adaptive evolution via genomic and epigenetic changes prior to Darwinian selection is primarily the result of active cell biology processes.
In short, Laukien The processes of adaptive evolution are, themselves , evolving.
In Origins & Evolution, his complementary follow-up work, Laukien continues to challenge conventional wisdom and offer novel insights. Employing the framework of evolution, he explores feedback-driven processes in the realms of cosmological, planetary, geological, and climate evolution and their effects on life and organismal evolution.
In Origins & Evolution, Laukien delves origins of molecular evolvability and cellular life, as well as of astrobiology with putative exoplanet lifeEarth’s tumultuous planetary evolution with frozen “Snowball Earth” episodes and glaciation-free warm periods with carbon dioxide levels five times higher than todayThe evolutionary impact of six mass extinctions due to major volcanic and asteroid activity in the last 600 million years and the implied chances of future mass extinctionsOur evolving climate—with over 50 near-regular Northern ice ages in the last 3 million years, along with the unpredictable consequences of anthropogenic climate changeEusociality in homo sapiens—the only highly intelligent species with a technological civilization that has evolved on Earth in 3.8 billion years among 100 million speciesThe concept of a lifetime of species in evolution, from ten thousands to millions of years, and the implications for the evolution and design of future hominin species and hybrids
A must-read for anyone pondering the evolutionary history and future of life on our planet, as well as of Homo sapiens and of the meaning of our existence.
258 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 19, 2022
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