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About Life

This book uses modern biological knowledge to tackle the question: "What distinguishes living organisms from the non-living ...

Amino Acids and the Asymmetry of Life : Caught in the Act of Formation

This book describes how the basic building blocks of life, the amino acids, formed. After a comprehensible introduction into ...

Astrobiology: Future Perspectives

Astrobiology, a new exciting interdisciplinary research field, seeks to unravel the origin and evolution of life wherever ...

Between Necessity and Probability: Searching for t

This study investigates the major theories of the origins of life in light of modern research with the aim of distinguishing ...

Biosphere Origin and Evolution

The book covers notions by scientists of various branches on the evolutionary relationship between the biosphere and geosphere, ...

Chemical Evolution and the Origin of Life

Up to now, we do not have a generally accepted theory about the origin of life and about the process of development of life, ...

Comets

The book covers the most recent ideas about the nature and dynamics of comets, including a thorough discussion on Oort cloud ...

Comets and the Origin and Evolution of Life

Nine years after the publication of Comets and the Origin and Evolution of Life, one of the pioneering books in Astrobiology, ...

Digging it up Down Under

This book contains the answers to these questions, and more. Whether you are a graduate student seeking to gain overseas ...

Doing Integrated History and Philosophy of Science: A Case Study of the Origin of Genetics

offers an integrated historical and philosophical examination of the origin of genetics. The author contends that an integrated ...

Ecology and Behaviour of Mesozoic Reptiles

Our knowledge of extinct animals depends almost entirely upon the study of fossils. This richly illustrated book clothes ...

Elwyn Simons : A Search for Origins

Summarizes the current state of knowledge in many aspects of primate and human evolution that have been studied by Simons ...

Eukaryotic Membranes and Cytoskeleton

Eukaryotic Membranes and Cytoskeleton: Origins and Evolution discusses the evolutionary origin and diversification of eukaryotic ...

Evolution from Cellular to Social Scales

Evolution is a critical challenge for many areas of science, technology and development of society. The book reviews general ...

Evolutionary Biology from Concept to Application

this book provides an up-to-date overview of evolutionary concepts and how these concepts can be applied to a better understanding ...

Feyerabend’s Epistemological Anarchism

argues that the traditional image of Feyerabend is erroneous and that, contrary to common belief, he was a great admirer ...

Fish Histology

This volume describes the myriad ways in which fish have approached problems of reproduction — it is an amply illustrated ...

From Fossils to Astrobiology : Records of Life on Earth and Search for Extraterrestrial Biosignatures

From Fossils to Astrobiology reviews developments in paleontology and geobiology that relate to the rapidly-developing field ...

Galaxy Formation

This second edition of Galaxy Formation is an up-to-date text on astrophysical cosmology, expounding the structure of the ...

Granite genesis: in-situ melting and crustal evolution

In this book we suggest an alternative model for the origin of granite in terms of in-situ meltingintracrustal convection ...

Total Books: 1 - 20 /52