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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 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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Human Origins and Environmental Backgrounds

Human Origins and Environmental Backgrounds is a benchmark compendium of research that presents itself at a major paradigm ...

Intelligent Life in the Universe

This book addresses the possible origins, development and fate of intelligent life in the universe. The author presents a ...

Lectures in Astrobiology

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

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 ...

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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