Wallace Arthur

Understanding Life in the Universe

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is aimed at anyone interested in the existence and nature of extraterrestrial life, including general readers and students of astrobiology, astronomy, planetary science, and evolutionary biology. It focuses on two key issues: where is alien life to be found, and what is it like?

Produktdetails

• Understanding Life
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 180mm x 130mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 286g
• ISBN-13: 9781009207362
• ISBN-10: 1009207369
• Artikelnr.: 66266892

Autorenporträt

Wallace Arthur is an evolutionary biologist with an interest in how life evolves on other planets, and in particular how similar the life forms that evolution produces on one inhabited planet may be to those on another. He is the author of The Biological Universe (Cambridge University Press, 2020) and Understanding Evo-Devo (Cambridge University Press, 2021).

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. The search for extraterrestrial life
2. Where in the universe to look?
3. Evolution - here and elsewhere
4. The key concept of habitability
5. Life in the solar system
6. Life in other planetary systems
7. The nature of extraterrestrial life
8. Intelligence - here and elsewhere
Concluding remarks
Summary of common misunderstandings
References and further reading
Figure credits
Index.