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Cosmos & culture :

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0160831199

(Number (ISBN

9780160831195

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9780160826016

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dltt

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NAS 1.21:2009-4802

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NAS 1.21:2009-4802

Title Proper

Cosmos & culture :

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[Book]

Other Title Information

cultural evolution in a cosmic context /

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Steven J. Dick and Mark L. Lupisella

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

[Washington, DC] :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O.,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

[2009]

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

ix, 602 pages :

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illustrations (some color) ;

Dimensions

25 cm

Series Title

NASA SP ;

Volume Designation

2009-4802

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Shipping list no.: 2010-0093-P

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Introduction / Steven J. Dick and Mark L. Lupisella -- Cosmic evolution : state of the science / Eric J. Chaisson -- Cosmic evolution : history, culture, and human destiny / Steven J. Dick -- Social evolution : state of the field / Kathryn Denning -- The evolution of culture / Daniel C. Dennett -- The big burp and the multiplanetary mandate / Howard Bloom -- Evo devo universe? A framework for speculations on cosmic culture / John M. Smart -- Dangerous memes; or, What the Pandorans let loose / Susan Blackmore -- Cosmocultural evolution : the coevolution of culture and cosmos and the creation of cosmic value / Mark L. Lupisella -- The intelligent universe / James Gardner -- Life, mind, and culture as fundamental properties of the universe / Paul C.W. Davies -- The value of "L" and the cosmic bottleneck / Seth Shostak -- Encoding our origins : communicating the evolutionary epic in interstellar messages / Douglas A. Vakoch -- History and science after the chronometric revolution / David Christian -- Bringing culture to cosmos : the postbiological universe / Steven J. Dick -- Bringing cosmos to culture : Harlow Shapley and the uses of cosmic evolution / JoAnn Palmeri

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From GPO Bookstore's Website: Authors with diverse backgrounds in science, history, anthropology, and more, consider culture in the context of the cosmos. How does our knowledge of cosmic evolution affect terrestrial culture? Conversely, how does our knowledge of cultural evolution affect our thinking about possible cultures in the cosmos? Are life, mind, and culture of fundamental significance to the grand story of the cosmos that has generated its own self-understanding through science, rational reasoning, and mathematics? Book includes bibliographical references and an index

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GPO

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033-000-01318-3

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$61.00

Title

Cosmos & culture.

International Standard Book Number

9780160831195

Parallel Title

Cosmos and culture :

Parallel Title

Cultural evolution in a cosmic context

Other Title Information

cultural evolution in a cosmic context

Astronomy-- History

Cosmology-- History

Culture-- Origin

Human evolution

Social evolution

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Edition

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Book number

Dick, Steven J

Lupisella, Mark

United States., NASA History Division

Date of Transaction

20161213114722.0

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[Book]

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