The Fifth Miracle : The Search for the Origin and Meaning of Life

Davies, Paul

ISBN 10: 0713992158 / ISBN 13: 9780713992151

Published by Allen Lane, 1998

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Hardback 1st ed 1st printing. 260 pp Both book and dust jacket are in very good condition. There is a name and date on the front endpaper.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Fifth Miracle : The Search for the Origin and Meaning of Life
• Publisher: Allen Lane
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0713992158
• ISBN 13: 9780713992151
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science

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Synopsis

The origins of life remains one of the great unsolved mysteries of science. Growing evidence suggests that the first organisms lived deep underground, in environments previously thought to be uninhabitable, and that microbes carried inside rocks have travelled between Earth and Mars. But the questions remains: how can life spring into being from non-living chemicals? THE FIFTH MIRACLE reveals the remarkable new theories and discoveries that seem set to transform our understanding of life's role in the unfolding drama of the cosmos.

About the Author

Paul Davies is an internationally acclaimed physicist, writer and broadcaster, now based in South Australia. He is the author of some twenty books, including in Penguin the bestselling The Mind of God (1993), and About Time (1996), both of which were shortlisted for the Rhone-Poulenc Science Book Prize.