Editors:
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- Muriel Gargaud (Editor-in-Chief),
- Hervé Martin,
- Philippe Claeys
First comprehensive, beginning level book on the emergent science of astrobiology
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
Pages I-XXII
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- Purificación López-García
Pages 221-237
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- David Moreira, Purificación López-García
Pages 305-317
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- Yves Bénilan, Hervé Cottin
Pages 347-428
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- Yves Ellinger, Françoise Pauzat
Pages 429-489
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Back Matter
Pages 547-669
About this book
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.
Keywords
- Habitat
- astrobiology
- distribution
- evolution
- hydrothermal vents
- origin of life
- solar system
- the origin
Editors and Affiliations
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Observatoire Aquitain des Sciences de l’Univers, Université Bordeaux 1, Floirac, France
Muriel Gargaud
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Laboratoire Magmas et Volcans, Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Hervé Martin
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Department of Geology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
Philippe Claeys