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On the Likely Origin of Species
On the Likely Origin of Species
On the Likely Origin of Species
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Einstein once famously proclaimed: "Make things as simple as you possibly can, but no simpler."
This book is an attempt to do precisely that, and in the process to take lay readers on a voyage all the way from the Big Bang to the human species.
In doing so, it avoids both the simplistic neo-Darwinian idea that everything happens by pure chance and the unscientific notion that if we want to know how our universe came to be, all we have to do is read our bibles.
Suarez presents here a rigorous and also entertaining description of life from the moment (approximately 13.7 billion years ago) when total darkness gave way to blinding light, and from there all the way to the present.
It tackles the mystery of biogenesis - that is to say the moment when chemicals, which did not seem predisposed to arrange themselves into something more complex, somehow overcame the tendency to break apart and instead combined into something as harmonious and perfectly synchronized as a living cell.
In between the singularity that marked the beginning of all matter and the wondrous complexity of the human mind, the author tackles the inflationary moment, Dark Energy, the Second Law, biogenesis and the so-called "missing link," using analogies, stories, and quotes from history's great thinkers.
The book does not solve the four mysteries of natural history, but it provides the reader insights by which to weigh to what extent modern science has solved them and to what extent they remain scientific voids that beg for a metaphysical explanation.
At the very end, a theory is put forth that connects two of science's four great mysteries. If true, the philosophical implications are so startling that it makes reading the book worthwhile just to ponder the possibility that Suarez may be right about that connection.
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PublisherAuthorHouse
Release dateJan 10, 2013
ISBN9781477278482
On the Likely Origin of Species
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Xavier L. Suarez

Xavier L. Suarez is both an academic and a politician. He was born in Cuba and came to the United States as a refugee from Castro-communism. Here in the states, he obtained scholarships from high school at the famed St. Anselm’s in Washington, D.C. and subsequently at Villanova University, where he was the only summa cum laude graduate in the entire school of engineering. He then obtained joint degrees in law and public policy from Harvard. In 1985, Suarez was elected Mayor of Miami; he was reelected twice. In 2011, Suarez was elected Miami-Dade County Commissioner, where he served for two-plus terms, until termed out in 2020. He has written books on topics ranging from politics to anthropology and economics. He is married to Rita Elena and live, along with my son Francis (currently serving as Mayor of Miami) and daughters Olga, Annie and Carolina, plus 11 grandkids, in the Miami area.

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