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Life Itself: Its Origin and Nature
de Francis Crick
- Usado
- very good
- Tapa dura
- Firmado
- First
- Estado
- Very Good/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0671255622
- ISBN 13
- 9780671255626
- Librería
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Carrollton, Texas, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1981. SIGNED. 1st/1st, VG/NF. First Edition, First Printing with complete number line starting with 1. Signed by Francis Crick on the title page. The book is tight and square with and clean unmarred boards. Light crinkle to spine ends and top corners mildly bumped. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or marking's and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($12.95) with mild rubbing and slight wear to corners. Protected in a Brodart Mylar cover.
"When Mr. Crick writes about the nature and origin of life, it is always prudent and often a delight to pay attention," wrote Carl Sagan in a 1981 review of "Life Itself" in the New York Times.
If you remember your high school science, you will recall that Watson and Crick (James Watson and Frances Crick) discovered the molecular structure of DNA — the building blocks of life. Crick was also primarily responsible for discovering the nature of the genetic code.
In "Life Itself" Crick considers the grand panorama of cosmic evolution and offers up the theory of Directed Panspermia —the hypothesis that life on Earth originally came from other planetary systems. He proposed that the Earth was intentionally seeded by other planetary life forms — intelligent beings much more advanced than we are — in an effort to spread their genetics of life throughout the cosmos.
Crick writes, ''Once the scale and nature of the galaxy are appreciated, it is intolerable not to know whether we are its sole inhabitants. It may even be very dangerous not to do so…To show no interest in these topics is to be truly uneducated.''
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- Librería
- Armadillo Alley Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 0006
- Título
- Life Itself: Its Origin and Nature
- Autor
- Francis Crick
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Cloth
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Near Fine
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition / First Printing
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 0671255622
- ISBN 13
- 9780671255626
- Editorial
- Simon & Schuster
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1981
- Catálogos del vendedor
- First Editions; Signed Books;
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Armadillo Alley Books
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Carrollton, Texas
Sobre Armadillo Alley Books
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