Origins : the Darwin College lectures / edited by A.C. Fabian.

Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1988.

xiii, 168 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

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.

Includes bibliographies and index.