Contends that randomness in the universe is limited by the rules of physics and chemistry, resulting in repeated examples of evolutionary convergence that demonstrate life's ability to arrive at a single solution in different ways. The eminent evolutionary palaeobiologist Simon Conway Morris challenges the accepted view that if the tape of life were wound back, the replay would be very different. He also asks: are we alone? The Cambridge Sandwich
1. Looking for Easter Island
2. Can we break the great code?
3. Universal Goo: life as a cosmic principle?
4. The origin of life: straining the soup or our credulity?
5. Uniquely lucky? The strangeness of Earth
6. Converging on the extreme
7. Seeing convergence
8. Alien convergences?
9. The non-prevalence of humanoids? 10. Evolution bound: the ubiquity of convergence
11. Towards a theology of evolution
12. Last word.
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