Here Be Dragons
The Scientific Quest for Extraterrestrial Life
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 23 March 2000
- ISBN 9780195128529
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages272 pages
- Size 236x160x30 mm
- Weight 544 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 21 colour illustrations, 11 halftones 0
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Short description:
It is only recently that advances in chemistry, physics, and biology and in their application to space and the space sciences, have provided scientists with the tools to make accurate and well-informed predictions about the possibility of life on other planets. In this book, the authors summarize and present the scientific search for life in the universe, and the current level of scientific understanding of how life begins, grows, and becomes intelligent in our Solar System and beyond. This engaging book promises to appeal not only to the general reader but to scientists as well, many of whom strive to acquire an informed perspective on the search for extraterrestrial life in fields not their own.
MoreLong description:
It is only recently that advances in chemistry, physics, and biology and in their application to space and the space sciences, have provided scientists with the tools to make accurate and well-informed predictions about the possibility of life on other planets. In this book, the authors summarize and present the scientific search for life in the universe, and the current level of scientific understanding of how life begins, grows, and becomes intelligent in our Solar System and beyond. This engaging book promises to appeal not only to the general reader but to scientists as well, many of whom strive to acquire an informed perspective on the search for extraterrestrial life in fields not their own.
'This is a both wide-ranging overview of the study of life in the universe and a scientific and colour accont of the serch for extraterrestrial life...Everything we know so far about the emergence of intelligent life on earth is desribed, Aslib
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Origns: How Life on Earth Began
Going to Extremes: The Habitats and Requirements for Life
The Incredible Shrinking Martians: Searching for Life in the Solar System
The Death and Life of Stars: Organic Chemistry and the Evolution of Solar Systems
The Planet Finders: Searching for Life Beyond the Sun
What Happens in Evolution? Chance and Necessity in the Origin of Biological Complexity
SETI: The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Dreamland: The Science and Religion of UFOs
Exotica: Life as we don't know it
Many Worlds: Cosmology and the Anthropic Principle
Conclusion
Endnotes
