Origins
Subtitle: cosmos, earth, and mankind
By: Hubert Reeves ... [et al.] ; foreword by Joseph Silk.
Contributors: Reeves, Hubert.
Edition: 1st English-language ed.
Publisher: Arcade Pub.; Distributed by Little, Brown
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
Subjects: Cosmology.; Human beings -- Origin.; Evolution (Biology); Scientists -- Interviews.
Description: In this relatively brief but potent book, three eminent scientists - an astrophysicist, an organic chemist, and an anthropologist - ponder and discuss some of the basic questions that have obsessed humankind through the ages, and offer thoughtful, enlightening answers, in terms the layperson can easily understand.

Provocative, informative, free of technical or scientific jargon, Origins, which is structured as a play in three acts, offers compelling insights into how the universe, life on Earth, and the human species began and evolved, based on the most up-to-date knowledge and in the light of the most recent scientific discoveries.