OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS: The origins of life -- from the birth of life to the origin of language.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-28 January 1999-OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS: The origins of life -- from the birth of life to the origin of language (C)1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:270199 * A major new treatise on evolution and the transference of information * John Maynard Smith, University of Sussex, and Eors Szathmary, Collegium Budapest, Hungary During evolution there have been a number of major transitions in the way in which information is passed between generations.

These include the origin of genes, of the genetic code, of cells, of multicellular animals and plants, of animal societies, and of language. The evolution of increased complexity depended on these transitions. This highly original and accessible book describes these transitions and how they came...