La evolución de nuestro universo

Delineating the huge strides taken in cosmology in the past ten years, this much-anticipated second edition of Malcolm Longair's highly appreciated textbook has been extensively and thoroughly updated. It tells the story of modern astrophysical cosmology from the perspective of one of its most important and fundamental problems – how did the galaxies come about? Longair uses this approach to introduce the whole of what may be called "classical cosmology". What’s more, he describes how the study of the origin of galaxies and larger-scale structures in the Universe has provided us with...

En la hora presente, y si volvemos la vista atrás, considera-mos que la humanidad ha progresado bastante. Desarrollamos potentes investigaciones, viajamos al espacio, desarrollamos nuevos medicamentos, avanzamos en derechos sociales, o retrocedemos amparados en la crisis que todo lo justifica. Incluso en lo ambiental, hasta el capitalismo se ha travestido, en un capitalismo verde , interesado, que no preocupado, en nuevos modelos de negocio, en nuevos horizontes de dominio de los mercados amparados en la militancia ciudadana o en la inacción de los dirigentes políticos. Lo ambiental vende, ...

Entre las ciudades de San Juan del Río y Tequisquiapan, en el estado de Querétaro, se encuentran cinco localidades: San Pedro Ahuacatlán y Visthá, pertenecientes al municipio de San Juan del Río y Santa María del Camino, Bordo Blanco y San Nicolás, que corresponden al municipio de Tequisquiapan. Estas localidades se caracterízan físicamente por sus viviendas de ladrillo rojo recocido, sus calles empedradas o de tierra suelta, y por su principal actividad económica: la producción artesanal de ladrillos.

Biographies and bibliographies of members are included in many of the volumes. Lists of members are usually given on covers of the numbers.

Making knowledge about evolution available to everyone, this simple and entertaining book offers answers to the most frequently asked questions. Throughout the text, the reader is reminded of the importance of understanding evolutionary processes in order to approach present day human behavior, including social conduct, as well as the difficulty of trying to decipher the nature of modern human beings without going back to their zoological origin. Divided into two sections, the first one builds the foundation for the latter, which explains the evolution of life, beginning at the physical...