Quarks to Culture

Quarks to Culture Google Preview ShareShare on FacebookTweet about this on TwitterShare on Google+Share on LinkedInEmail this to someone Pub Date: May 2017 ISBN: 9780231179607 280 Pages Format: Hardcover List Price: $35.00£27.95 Add to Cart Pub Date: May 2017 ISBN: 9780231544139 280 Pages Format: E-book List Price: $34.99£27.95 Get the E-Book Quarks to Culture How We Came to Be Tyler Volk Columbia University Press Main Reviews Contents Excerpt Links Awards Our world is nested, both physically and socially, and at each level we find innovations that are necessary for the next. Consider: atoms combine to form molecules, molecules combine to form single-celled organisms; when people come together, they build societies. Physics has gone far in mapping the basic mechanics of the simplest things and the dynamics of the overall nesting, as have biology and the social sciences for their fields. But what can we say about this beautifully complex whole? How does one stage shape another, and what can we learn about human existence through understanding an enlarged field of creation and being?