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Planetary systems and the origins of life / [edited by] Ralph Pudritz, Paul Higgs, Jonathon Stone.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Cambridge astrobiology ; 3.Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 315 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780511536120 (ebook)
Other title:
  • Planetary Systems & the Origins of Life
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version: : No titleDDC classification:
  • 576.839 22
LOC classification:
  • QH326 .P49 2007
Online resources:
Contents:
Observations of extrasolar planetary systems / Shay Zucker -- The 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 -- The 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.
Summary: Several major breakthroughs have helped contribute to the emerging field of astrobiology. Focusing on these developments, this fascinating book explores some of the most important problems in this field. It examines how planetary systems formed, and how water and the biomolecules necessary for life were produced. It then focuses on how life may have originated and evolved on Earth. Building on these two themes, the final section takes the reader on a search for life elsewhere in the Solar System. It presents the latest results of missions to Mars and Titan, and explores the possibilities of life in the ice-covered ocean of Europa. This interdisciplinary book is an enjoyable overview of this exciting field for students and researchers in astrophysics, planetary science, geosciences, biochemistry, and evolutionary biology. Colour versions of some of the figures are available at www.cambridge.org/9780521875486.
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Observations of extrasolar planetary systems / Shay Zucker -- The 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 -- The 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.

Several major breakthroughs have helped contribute to the emerging field of astrobiology. Focusing on these developments, this fascinating book explores some of the most important problems in this field. It examines how planetary systems formed, and how water and the biomolecules necessary for life were produced. It then focuses on how life may have originated and evolved on Earth. Building on these two themes, the final section takes the reader on a search for life elsewhere in the Solar System. It presents the latest results of missions to Mars and Titan, and explores the possibilities of life in the ice-covered ocean of Europa. This interdisciplinary book is an enjoyable overview of this exciting field for students and researchers in astrophysics, planetary science, geosciences, biochemistry, and evolutionary biology. Colour versions of some of the figures are available at www.cambridge.org/9780521875486.

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