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Indlæser... Collected Essays on Evolution, Nature, and the Cosmos, Vol. I: The Immense Journey, The Firmament of Time, The Unexpected Universe, Uncollected Writingsaf Loren Eiseley
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The "journey" is evolution of life on Earth, putting in context human evolution: looking at paths not taken, or taken and leading to extinction. Ends with acknowledgment that secret of life remains out of reach of science - and unlikely to be a "chemical or protoplasm" that science will identify as a "secret ingredient".
I appreciate Eiseley's sense of the overall evolutionary narrative, and his way of selecting micro examples to muse upon that macro picture. Looking forward to the other books collected in this edition.
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FIRMAMENT OF TIME
UNEXPECTED UNIVERSE
UNCOLLECTED ESSAYS ( )