Life in Space : Astrobiology for Everyone / Lucas John Mix.
Mix, Lucas John, author.
2009
QH326 .M59 2009eb
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Title Life in Space : Astrobiology for Everyone / Lucas John Mix.
Author Mix, Lucas John, author.
ISBN 9780674054288
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674054288
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009]
Copyright ©2009
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (344 p.)
Item Number 10.4159/9780674054288 doi
Call Number QH326 .M59 2009eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 576.8/39
Summary A truly interdisciplinary endeavor, astrobiology looks at the evidence of astronomy, biology, physics, chemistry, and a host of other fields. A grand narrative emerges, beginning from the smallest, most common particles yet producing amazing complexity and order. Lucas Mix is a congenial guide through the depths of astrobiology, exploring how the presence of planets around other stars affects our knowledge of our own planet; how water, carbon, and electrons interact to form life as we know it; and how the processes of evolution and entropy act upon every living thing.
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Frontmatter
Contents
1. Caught Up in Life
2. Living Science
3. Defining Life
4. A Well-Behaved Universe
5. Well-Behaved Observers?
6. Life in the Cosmos
7. Life among the Stars
8. The Planetary Phenomenon
9. The Inner Solar System
10. The Outer Solar System
11. Extrasolar Planets
12. Life and Time
13. Making Cells from Scratch
14. Building Biospheres
15. Molecules
16. Metabolism
17. The Tree of Life
18. Exceptions
19. Intelligence
20. The Story of Life
Abbreviations
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

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