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Paul Valéry, étendu sur le sable chaud d’une lagune, regarde le ciel. Dans son champ de vision, des palmiers se balancent mollement, mûrissant leurs fruits. Il est à l’écoute du temps qui sourdement fait son œuvre. Cette écoute, on peut l’appliquer à l’univers. Au fil du temps se déroule la gestation cosmique. À chaque seconde, l’univers prépare quelque chose. Il monte lentement les marches de la complexité. » H.R.Quand Hubert Reeves rencontre Paul Valéry, et l’astrophysique la poésie, la vulgarisation des sciences s’enrichit d’un grand classique qui, en un quart de siècle, n’a pas pris une ride.

What is human consciousness, where did it come from, and how does it determine who we are and how we live in the world? At the heart of this book is the theory that human consciousness did not develop over time--that, in fact, ancient peoples from mesopotamia to Peru did not "think" as we do and therefore were not conscious. Drawing on laboratory studies of the brain and clos examination of archaeological evidence, the author concludes that consciousness is not a product of evolution but of catastrophic events in our own history, events that occurred as recently as three thousand years ago.

Essays from the author's column This view of life, published in Natural history.

Esta coleccion nacio como una hermana mayor de la &la" Serie general con el fin de acoger los &la" grandes temas y los &la" grandes libros (que muchas veces han sido tambien libros grandes). Se inicio en 1986 con Los descubridores, de Daniel J. Boorstin (primer titulo de una trilogia que se completaria con Los creadores y Los pensadores, y uno de los libros mas vendidos de la editorial) y ha seguido publicandose hasta hoy con titulos como Carlos V y sus banqueros (edicion completa) de Ramon Carande; El conde duque de Olivares, de John Elliott; Diarios completos, de Manuel Azana; Federico Garcia Lorca, de lan Gibson; Historia de Espana, de Joseph Perez; Historia de Espana (3 vols.), de Ferran Soldevila; Historia de Espana (14 vols.), dirigida por John Lynch; Historia de America Latina (16 vols.), dirigida por Leslie Bethell; Historia del siglo XX, de Eric J. Hobsbawm; Los Origenes de la Inquisicion espanola, de B. Netanyahu; La riqueza y la pobreza de las naciones, de David S. Landes, etcetera. Escrita por uno de los mayores fisicos de nuestro siglo, es una aportacion de primer orden al pensamiento cientifico y a la cultura universal. Hawking nos explica con asombrosa sencillez las leyes que desvelan la compleja danza geometrica creadora del mundo y de la vida.

"We are trying to apply the concepts of an outdated world view--the mechanistic world view of Cartesian-Newtonian science--to a reality that can no longer be understood in terms of these concepts ... To describe this world appropriately, we need an ecological perspective that the Cartesian world view does not offer." (Preface 15,16)

From the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Guns, Germs and SteelMore than 98 % of human genes are shared with two species of chimpanzee.

What separates your mind from that of an animal? Is it the ability to design tools; a sense of self; or the grasp of past and future? In recent decades these claims have eroded, or even been disproven outright, by a revolution in the study of animal cognition. Waal explores both the scope and the depth of animal intelligence, offering a firsthand account of how science has stood traditional behaviorism on its head by revealing how smart animals really are, and how we've underestimated their abilities for too long.

An easy-to-understand introduction to the complexities of today's and tomorrow's physics. The author assess what is and what is not actually possible according to the laws of physics, among all the weird and wonderful things that Kirk, Spock and Scottie got up to in their parallel universe.