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380:. Hardy writes that in the second book, the authors "critically explore religion, art, philosophy of science, visual processing in the brain, hearing, language, information theory, chaos, adaptive radiation, elephants, genes and, yes, memes and much more". He concluded that the books are a "fun" and "engaging" example of popular science writing. 396:, wrote that it "contains a lot of solid science and maths, much of it debunking the traditional tosh in other popular science books. So if you're interested in human origins, and like your ideas laced with farce of the Pratchett kind, you'll find it entertaining, instructive and illuminating". 348:
The science section explains that, apart from the wizards, this is probably how humanity and science developed; the imagination that peopled the night with terrors went on to create a story in which there was a reliable light source, and made that story reality. While Roundworld does not, as
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The book concludes with: "The we've got have brought us a long way. Plenty of creatures are intelligent but only one tells stories. That's us: Pan narrans. And what about Homo sapiens? Yes, we think that would be a very good idea ..."
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The wizards travel back in time to suppress the elvish influence, but this only makes things worse; people are no longer superstitious, but they are no longer creative either. In the "new" 17th century humans are still in the
364:), introduced in the first book in the series and developed in this volume, has been used by Pratchett and his co-authors to explore the role of narratives in real-world literature and science. 247:. The central theme in the book is that in order for humans to understand anything it must be encapsulated in a story. In the fictional part of the book this is symbolized by the 1810: 979: 405: 227: 185: 2144: 1732: 1595: 940: 830: 29: 1817: 984: 1074: 1370: 1158: 577: 271:
In the story, the wizards accidentally are transported to Roundworld (the real universe, inadvertently created during the first book) during the
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Where the first book centred on the origins of the universe, earth and the beginnings of life, the second part follows the modern
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era. This is the first time they learn there are humans on Roundworld; they previously learnt that something would escape an
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explained in the first book, contain any narrativium, human belief that it should have created something very similar.
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feeding off human imagination and encouraging them to be scared of the dark and the monsters within.
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stories. With the elves now seen as a harmless fiction, their power over Roundworld is gone.
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Bailey, Alison (June 2002). "The Science Of Discworld II".
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2002 book by Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen
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Index


Terry Pratchett
Ian Stewart
Jack Cohen
Paul Kidby
Discworld
History of Earth
Stories
Rincewind
Unseen University Staff
Hex
Granny Weatherwax
Unseen University
Fantasy
Ebury Press
ISBN
0-09-188805-0
The Science of Discworld
The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch
novelist
Terry Pratchett
science
Ian Stewart
Jack Cohen
The Science of Discworld
The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch
Discworld
history of Earth
fictional element
Homo sapiens

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