About Life
This book uses modern biological knowledge to tackle the question: "What distinguishes living organisms from the non-living ...
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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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Astrobiology: Future Perspectives
Astrobiology, a new exciting interdisciplinary research field, seeks to unravel the origin and evolution of life wherever ...
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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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Biosphere Origin and Evolution
The book covers notions by scientists of various branches on the evolutionary relationship between the biosphere and geosphere, ...
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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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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, ...
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Ecology and Behaviour of Mesozoic Reptiles
Our knowledge of extinct animals depends almost entirely upon the study of fossils. This richly illustrated book clothes ...
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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 ...
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Eukaryotic Membranes and Cytoskeleton
Eukaryotic Membranes and Cytoskeleton: Origins and Evolution discusses the evolutionary origin and diversification of eukaryotic ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Fish Histology
This volume describes the myriad ways in which fish have approached problems of reproduction — it is an amply illustrated ...
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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 ...
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High-Velocity Clouds
On the occasion of the retirement of Ulrich Schwarz, a symposium was held in Groningen in May of 1996, celebrating his contributions ...
Lee masHuman Origins and Environmental Backgrounds
Human Origins and Environmental Backgrounds is a benchmark compendium of research that presents itself at a major paradigm ...
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Intelligent Life in the Universe
This book addresses the possible origins, development and fate of intelligent life in the universe. The author presents a ...
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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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Life as We Know It
Life As we Know It ["LAKI"] covers several aspects of Life, ranging from the prebiotic level, origin of life, evolution ...
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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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