Paradigms Lost: Images of Man in the Mirror of Science
- ISBN-10
- 0688081312
- ISBN-13
- 9780688081317
- Series
- Paradigms Lost
- Category
- Science (General)
- Pages
- 565
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1989
- Publisher
- Morrow
- Author
- J. L. Casti
Description
Studies of some of the major mysteries of modern science: the origin of life on Earth, the real sources of human behavior and social patterns, how we acquire language, the fundamental nature of our thinking processes, the possible existence of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe, and the impact of our own scrutiny on what we observe as real.
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- 2012-06-28
- 230 pages
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- 2012-05-31
- 240 pages
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