Lectures in Astrobiology

ISBN 10: 3540336923 / ISBN 13: 9783540336921

Published by Springer, 2006

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pp. xxii + 669.

Seller Inventory # 7544836

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Lectures in Astrobiology
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3540336923
• ISBN 13: 9783540336921
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Based on material delivered at several summer schools, this book is the first comprehensive textbook at the graduate level encompassing all aspects associated with the emerging field of astrobiology.

Volume II gathers another set of extensive lectures covering topics so diverse as the formation and the distribution of elements in the universe, the concept of habitability from both the planetologists' and the biologists' point of view and artificial life. The contributions are held together by the common goal to understand better the origin of life, its evolution and possible existence outside the Earth's realm.
The volume ends with 120 pages of a very useful appendix comprising "Some Astrophysical Reminders", "Useful Astrobiological Data" and "An Astrobiological Glossary".

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Based on material delivered at several summer schools, this book is the first comprehensive textbook at the graduate level encompassing all aspects associated with the emerging field of astrobiology.

Volume II gathers another set of extensive lectures covering topics so diverse as the formation and the distribution of elements in the Universe, the concept of habitability from both the planetologists' and the biologists' point of view and artificial life. The contributions are held together by the common goal to understand better the origin of life, its evolution and possible existence outside the Earth's realm.