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Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe Book
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Amazon
Many planets throughout the vastness of Universe may be teeming with microbial life, but advancement beyond this stage is very rare. This book argues that the sweeping diversity of complex life on Earth evolved out of an extraordinary set of physical conditions and chance events that would be extremely hard to duplicate - though not impossible.
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Foyles
What determines whether complex life will arise on a planet, or even any life at all? Questions such as these are investigated in this groundbreaking book. In doing so, the authors synthesize information from astronomy, biology, and paleontology, and apply it to what we know about the rise of life on Earth and to what could possibly happen elsewhere in the universe. Everyone who has been thrilled by the recent discoveries of extrasolar planets and the indications of life on Mars and the Jovian moon Europa will be fascinated by Rare Earth, and its implications for those who look to the heavens for companionship.
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Blackwell
With a new preface and updated throughout, this first paperback edition of Ward and Brownlee's ground-breaking and controversial Rare Earth marshals data from geology, astronomy, and biology to put forth a radical hypothesis: While primitive...
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Pickabook
Peter Douglas Ward, Donald Brownlee
- 0387952896
- 9780387952895
- Peter D. Ward, Donald Brownlee
- 16 January 2004
- Springer
- Paperback (Book)
- 368
- 1st ed. 2000. 1st softcover printing
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