Astrobiology
A Brief Introduction
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2006
Johns Hopkins University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8018-8366-8 (ISBN)
Johns Hopkins University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8018-8366-8 (ISBN)
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Emphasizing the biochemical nature of astrobiology, this book examines the origin of the chemical elements, the events behind the developments that made our Universe habitable, and the ongoing sustenance of life. It also explores life in extreme habitats, potential extraterrestrial habitats, and the search for extraterrestrial life.
Is there anybody out there? Is ET trying to phone home? In the past decade or so, astrobiology has come of age. Once regarded as a laughing stock - physicists turned Roswell freaks - astrobiologists are increasingly greatly in number. Their subject is one of the few that has actually seen an increase in funding in recent years. Astrobiology blends astronomy, chemistry, and biology to search for amino acids and other building blocks of life. Practitioners seek new planets beyond our solar system, to seek out new life forms, to boldly go...Questions are posed, such as whether all life must be carbon based, whether only Earthlike planets can support life, and whether there "can be life, Jim, but not as we know it." This book is probably the first serious yet accessible book written on the subject. Plaxco is a chemist, Gross a molecular biologist and popular science writer.
Is there anybody out there? Is ET trying to phone home? In the past decade or so, astrobiology has come of age. Once regarded as a laughing stock - physicists turned Roswell freaks - astrobiologists are increasingly greatly in number. Their subject is one of the few that has actually seen an increase in funding in recent years. Astrobiology blends astronomy, chemistry, and biology to search for amino acids and other building blocks of life. Practitioners seek new planets beyond our solar system, to seek out new life forms, to boldly go...Questions are posed, such as whether all life must be carbon based, whether only Earthlike planets can support life, and whether there "can be life, Jim, but not as we know it." This book is probably the first serious yet accessible book written on the subject. Plaxco is a chemist, Gross a molecular biologist and popular science writer.
Kevin W. Plaxco is an associate professor of chemistry at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Michael Gross is a science writer based at Oxford.
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. What Is Life?
2. Origins of a Habitable Universe
3. Origins of a Habitable Planet
4. Primordial Soup
5. The Spark of Life
6. From Molecules to Cells
7. A Concise History of Life on Earth
8. Life on the Edge
9. Habitable Worlds in the Solar System and Beyond
10. The Search for Extraterrestrial Life
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 10.8.2006 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 38 Line drawings, black and white; 20 Halftones, black and white |
| Verlagsort | Baltimore, MD |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 499 g |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Biochemie |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8018-8366-0 / 0801883660 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8018-8366-8 / 9780801883668 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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