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978-1-4020-5418-1
About Life

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

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978-3-540-76886-9
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 ...

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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 ...

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978-3-540-78823-2
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, ...

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978-3-540-26229-9
Lectures in Astrobiology

This book is the first comprehensive textbook at the graduate level encompassing all aspects associated with the emerging ...

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978-3-540-33693-8
Lectures in Astrobiology

Based on material delivered at several summer schools, this book is the first comprehensive textbook at the graduate level ...

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978-3-540-76817-3
Life in the Universe : Expectations and Constraints

Energy, chemistry, solvents, and habitats -- the basic elements of living systems - define the opportunities and limitations ...

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978-3-540-34335-6
Micrometeorites and the Mysteries of Our Origins

This book relates an attempt to decrypt the still-obscure first billion years of history of the young Earth, during a cataclysmic ...

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978-3-540-78839-3
Research in Computational Molecular Biology : 12th Annual International Conference, RECOMB 2008, Singapore, March 30 - April 2, 2008. Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular ...

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978-0-387-77516-6
Strategies of Life Detection

The search for life outside the Earth has been one of mankind's most challenging quests. We have reached a level of technology ...

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978-1-4020-3206-6
The Bacteria: Their Origin, Structure, Function and Antibiosis

This book may seem like three or four books even though the main - cus is on a specialized topic—the bacterial cell wall. ...

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978-3-540-71958-8
Trans-Neptunian Objects and Comets

In the last two decades of the 20th century, we obtained our first detailed look at a cometary nucleus and detected objects ...

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