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Recent advances in the sciences, and their application to space, have enabled scientists to make accurate and informed predictions about the possibility of life on other planets. This study presents the scientific search for life in the universe.

Title Here be dragons : the scientific quest for extraterrestrial life / David Koerner, Simon LeVay. [electronic resource]
Publisher New York
Oxford University Press
Creation Date 2023
Notes Previously issued in print: 2000.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Origins: How Life on Earth Began
2 Going to Extremes: The Habitats and Requirements for Life
3 The Incredible Shrinking Martians: Searching for Life in the Solar System
4 The Death and Life of Stars: Organic Molecules and the Evolution of Solar Systems
5 The Planet Finders: Searching for Life Beyond the Sun
6 What Happens in Evolution? Chance and Necessity in the Origin of Biological Complexity
COLOR PLATES
7 SETI: The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
8 Dreamland: The Science and Religion of UFOs
9 Exotica: Life as We Don't Know It
10 Many Worlds: Cosmology and the Anthropic PrincipleConclusions
Notes
Index
Series Oxford scholarship online
Extent 1 online resource (281 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010711005605171
MARC RECORDS
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