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Morris, Simon Conway. Life's Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
Cambridge Univ. Oct. 2003. c.464p. illus. index. ISBN 0-521-82704-3. $30. SCI
Accomplished Cambridge paleobiologist Morris (The Crucible of Creation) brings the phenomenon of evolutionary convergence back to a central place in the discussion of the nature of life. During the course of evolution, disparate organisms converge on similar patterns of form and behavior in response to similar conditions of natural selection. Convergence occurs because the number of viable "solutions" is constrained by the limits of physics and chemistry. Morris gives a detailed and fascinating account of numerous examples of evolutionary convergence, ranging in scale and …
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