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Astrobiology : a brief introduction
- Title
- Astrobiology : a brief introduction / Kevin W. Plaxco and Michael Gross.
- Author
- Plaxco, Kevin W., 1965-
- Publication
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
- Supplementary Content
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Gross, Michael, 1963-
- Description
- ix, 259 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- ISBN
- 0801883660 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0801883679 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780801883675
- LCCN
- 2005027406
- OCLC
- ocm61724375
- SCSB-5280518
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries