In the Beginning

[From the back cover]

Bestselling science writer John Gribbin's In the Beginning goes beyond the Big Bang and puts forward radical new ideas about the universe--ones that are making cosmologists think like biologists. Relying on the recently confirmed theory of ripples in the fabric of space-time, Gribbin examines the universe as a product of evolution by natural selection, echoing and extending the Gaia principle that all the living things on earth can be regarded as a single living organism.

Controversial and accessibe, In the Beginning is as full of surprise and wonderment as of important scientific implications for both the history and fate of our universe.