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• Title:Origins : fourteen billion years of cosmic evolution / Neil deGrasse Tyson and Donald Goldsmith.
  
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• Author/Creator:Tyson, Neil deGrasse.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Goldsmith, Donald.
  
• Published/Created:New York : W.W. Norton & Co., ©2004.
  

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  • Call Number: QB981 .T96 2004
    
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  • Call Number: QB981 .T96 2004
    
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• Library of Congress Subjects:Cosmology.
  Evolution.
  Life--Origin.
  
• Medical Subjects: Cosmology.
  Biological Evolution
  
• Edition:1st ed.
  
• Description:345 pages, [32] pages of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
  
• Summary:Origins explores cosmic science's stunning new insights into the formation and evolution of our universe--of the cosmos, of galaxies and galaxy clusters, of stars within galaxies, of planets that orbit those stars, and of different forms of life that take us back to the first three seconds and forward through three billion years of life on Earth to today's search for life on other planets. Drawing on the current cross-pollination of geology, biology, and astrophysics, Origins explains the thrilling daily breakthroughs in our knowledge of the universe from dark energy to life on Mars to the mysteries of space and time. Distilling complex science in clear and lively prose, coauthors Neil deGrasse Tyson and Donald Goldsmith conduct a galvanizing tour of the cosmos revealing what the universe has been up to while turning part of itself into us.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-325) and index.
  
• ISBN:0393059928
  9780393059922
  0393327582
  9780393327588
  
• Contents:Preface : A meditation on the origins of science and the science of origins
  Overture : The greatest story ever told
  pt. 1. The origin of the universe. In the beginning
  Antimatter matters
  Let there be light
  Let there be dark
  Let there be more dark
  One universe or many?
  pt. 2. The origin of galaxies and cosmic structure. Discovering galaxies
  The origin of structure
  pt. 3. The origin of the stars. Dust to dust
  The elemental zoo
  pt. 4. The origin of planets. When worlds were young
  Between the planets
  Worlds unnumbered : planets beyond the solar system
  pt. 5. The origin of life. Life in the universe
  The origin of life on Earth
  Searching for life in the solar system
  Searching for life in the Milky Way galaxy
  Coda : The search for ourselves in the cosmos.