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Planetary systems and the origin of life /
Interdisciplinary overview of astrobiology for students and researchers in astrophysics, planetary science, geosciences, biochemistry, and biology.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2007.
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| Colección: | Cambridge astrobiology.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Observations of extrasolar planetary systems / Shay Zucker
- Atmospheres of extrasolar planets / L. Jeremy Richardson, Sara Seager
- Terrestrial planet formation / Edward W. Thommes
- From protoplanetary disks to prebiotic amino acids and the origin of the genetic code / Paul G. Higgs, Ralph E. Pudritz
- Emergent phenomena in biology: the origin of cellular life / David Deamer
- Extremophiles: defining the envelope for the search for life in the universe / Lynn Rothschild
- Hyperthermophilic life on Earth
- and on Mars? / Karl O. Stetter
- Phylogenomics: how far back in the past can we go? / Henner Brinkmann, Denis Baurain, Hervé Philippe
- Horizontal gene transfer, gene histories, and the root of the tree of life / Olga Zhaxybayeva, J. Peter Gogarten
- Evolutionary innovation versus ecological incumbency / Adolf Seilacher
- Gradual origin for the metazoans / Alexandra Pontefract, Jonathon Stone
- Search for life on Mars / Chris P. McKay
- Life in the dark dune spots of Mars: a testable hypothesis / Eörs Szathmáry [and others]
- Titan: a new astrobiological vision from the Cassini-Huygens data / François Raulin
- Europa, the ocean moon: tides, permeable ice, and life / Richard Greenberg.