Cosmos & culture : cultural evolution in a cosmic context / edited by Steven J. Dick and Mark L. Lupisella.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
[Washington, DC : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Office of External Relations, History Division] : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., [2009]
Description
ix, 602 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.

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    Notes
    Shipping list no.: 2010-0093-P.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • 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.
    Other title(s)
    • Cosmos and culture : cultural evolution in a cosmic context
    • Cultural evolution in a cosmic context
    ISBN
    • 9780160831195
    • 0160831199
    SuDoc no.
    NAS 1.21:2009-4802
    LCCN
    2009004348
    OCLC
    301706072
    RCP
    N - S
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