"Bringing together the worlds of SEL and STEM, this picture book guides children from cells to all living things on Earth to the universe, illustrating how we are all connected. By taking the reader on a journey from the miniscule to the massive, Me and You and the Universe fosters an appreciation for nature and our world's ecology. An afterword by the author details the meaning behind the text and offers a launching point for further discussion and...

"The notion of a living world is one of humanity's oldest beliefs. Though scorned by scientists in the sixties and seventies, the facts supporting this concept have now become tenets of modern Earth system science, a relatively young field that studies the living and nonliving components of the planet as an integrated whole. Life did not evolve passively in response to its environment, as scientists have long assumed. Instead, it evolved with Earth,...

Discusses the origin of life, covering the definition of the term, the Big Bang theory for the origin of the universe, and the process through which the molecules necessary for life came to exist.

"The newest addition to John Brockman's Edge.org series explores life itself, bringing together the world's leading biologists, geneticists, and evolutionary theorists -- including Richard Dawkins, Edward O. Wilson, J. Craig Venter, and Freeman Dyson. Scientists' understanding of life is progressing more rapidly than at any point in human history, from the extraordinary decoding of DNA to the controversial emergence of biotechnology. Featuring pioneering...