The age of everything how science explores the past /

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Autor principal: Hedman, Matthew, 1974-
Autor Corporativo: ebrary, Inc
Formato: Recurso Electrónico livro electrónico
Idioma:inglês
Publicado em: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
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Sumário:
  • Introduction
  • The calendars of the classic Maya
  • Precession, polaris, and the age of the pyramids
  • The physics of carbon-14
  • Calibrating carbon-14 dates and the history of the air
  • Carbon-14 and the peopling of the new world
  • Potassium, argon, DNA, and walking upright
  • Molecular dating and the many different types of mammals
  • Meteorites and the age of the solar system
  • Colors, brightness, and the age of stars
  • Distances, redshifts, and the age of the universe
  • Parameterizing the age of the universe.