Closing Human Evolution: Life in the Ultimate Age
This volume analyses the evolution of humankind by combining approaches from science and the arts. It offers a novel perspective on the evolution of life on Earth, based on a recent reformulation of the second law of thermodynamics in terms of the “maximu
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Ladislav Kováč
Closing Human Evolution: Life in the Ultimate Age
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SpringerBriefs in Evolutionary Biology
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Ladislav Kováč
Closing Human Evolution: Life in the Ultimate Age
123
Ladislav Kováč Faculty of Natural Sciences Comenius University Bratislava Slovakia
ISSN 2192-8134 ISSN 2192-8142 (electronic) SpringerBriefs in Evolutionary Biology ISBN 978-3-319-20659-2 ISBN 978-3-319-20660-8 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-20660-8 Library of Congress Control Number: 2015942619 Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London © The Author(s) 2015 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
About the Author
Ladislav Kováč (1932) was born in a small village in the Tatra Mountains in Slovakia. He studied biochemistry at Charles University in Prague and became a teacher and scientist at Comenius University in Bratislava and eventually head of the Department of Biochemistry. In a political purge that followed the Soviet invasion into Czechoslovakia in 1968, he was dismissed from the university and worked as a clinical chemist in a provincial psychiatric hospital, where he learned psychiatry, and later worked as a researcher in an institute for research on farm animals, where he learned ethology. After the fall of the communist regime in 1989, he was engaged in politics as Minister of Education and Science and in diplomacy as Ambassador of Czechoslovakia to UNESCO, Paris. In 1993, he resumed his position as head of the Department of Biochemistry at Comenius University and for two years (1996–1998) was a visiting scientist at Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research in Altenberg, Austria. Since 2002 he has been professor emeritus at Comenius University and works as a cognitive biologist. Along with more than 200 scientific papers, he has publish
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