Origins: Speculations on the Cosmos, Earth, and Mankind

In this relatively brief but potent book, three eminent scientists - an astrophysicist, an organic chemist, and an anthropologist - ponder and discuss some of the basic questions that have obsessed humankind through the ages, and offer thoughtful, enlightening answers, in terms the layperson can easily understand. Provocative, informative, free of technical or scientific jargon, Origins, which is structured as a play in three acts, offers compelling insights into how the universe, life on Earth, and the human species began and evolved, based on the most up-to-date knowledge and in the light of the most recent scientific discoveries. "The interfaces of astronomy, physics, chemistry, paleontology, and anthropology ... are explored in a series of penetrating responses to the queries of a leading science editor."--Foreword, p.viii