- Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-312) and indexes. - Foreword / Christian de Duve and Nobel laureate -- 1. Locating humans in the Universe -- 2. The race toward complexity -- 3. The stellar alchemy of metals -- 4. The formation of the planets -- 5. The emergence of life -- 6. The history of life -- 7. The awakening of intelligence -- 8. The other worlds -- 9. Perspectives -- App. A. The standard model of the physics of elementary particles -- App. B. Symmetry in physics -- App. C. The strange role of time in relativity -- App. D. The measurement of long time spans and the age of the Universe -- App. E. The standard model of the Big Bang -- App. F. The cause of the Big Bang and inflation -- App. G. Chirality.
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