Origins : the Darwin College lectures / edited by A.C. Fabian. - Cambridge [Eng.] : Cambridge University Press, 1988. - xiii, 168 p. : ill.

Lectures delivered during the Lent Term of 1986.

Introduction / D. Hugh Mellor -- Origin of the universe / Martin J. Rees -- Origin of the solar system / David W. Hughes -- Origins of complexity / Ilya Prigogine -- Human origins and evolution / David Pilbeam -- Origin of social behaviour / John Maynard Smith -- Origins of society -- Ernest Gellner -- Origins of language / John Lyons.

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Cosmology.
Human evolution.
Social evolution.
Language and languages--Origin.