The Nature of Life and Its Potential to Survive
This book looks at the persistence of life and how difficult it would be to annihilate life, especially a species as successful as humanity. The idea that life in general is fragile is challenged by the hardiness of microbes, which shows that astrobiology on exoplanets and other satellites must be r...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2017, 2017
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2017 |
| Series: | Astronomers' Universe
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Chapter 1 – What is Life?
- Chapter 2 – Life’s Grand Themes
- Chapter 3 – The Origin of Life on Earth
- Chapter 4 – Life as the Evolution of Information
- Chapter 5 – Life Jim, But Not as We Know It
- Chapter 6 - Extinction
- Chapter 7- Agents of Mass Destruction
- Chapter 8 - Ultimately, Can Life Survive?
- Chapter 9 - A Thesis on Life, the Universe and Almost Everything Else
- Glossary
- Index