Astrobiology : a brief introduction / Kevin W. Plaxco and Michael Gross.
Astrobiology -- which studies the intimate relationship between life and the cosmos -- is a fast-growing field that touches on aspects of cosmology, astrophysics, and chemistry. In the first scholarly overview of this dynamic field, biochemists Kevin W. Plaxco and Michael Gross tell the story of lif...
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Baltimore :
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2006.
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Table of Contents:
- What is life?
- Origins of a habitable universe
- Origins of a habitable planet
- Primordial soup
- The spark of life
- From molecules to cells
- A concise history of life on Earth
- Life on the edge
- Habitable worlds in the solar system and beyond
- The search for extraterrestrial life.