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Loading... Life in the Universe: A Beginner's Guideby Lewis Dartnell
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Brief run-thru of the usual astrobi topics. At times he almost sounds like a Ward/Brownlee (_Rare Earth_) kind of pessimist, but he ends with the sentence: "The chances are the whole universe is teeming with life, we just need to start reaching out to find it." no reviews | add a review
Astrobiology, the study of life and its existence in the universe, is now one of the hottest areas of both popular science and serious academic research, fusing biology, chemistry, astrophysics, and geology. In this masterful introduction, Lewis Dartnell explores its latest findings, and delves into some of the most fascinating questions in science. What actually is 'life'? Could it exist on other planets? Could alien cells be based on silicon rather than carbon, or need ammonia instead of water? Introducing some of the most extreme lifeforms on Earth - those thriving in boiling acid or huddled around deep-sea volcanoes - Dartnell takes us on a tour of the universe to reveal how deeply linked we are to our cosmic environment, and shows why the Earth is so uniquely suited for the development of life. No library descriptions found.
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)576.839Natural sciences and mathematics Life Sciences, Biology Genetics and evolution Evolution Life 1.0 astrobiologyLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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