Planetary systems and the origin of life / Ralph Pudritz, Paul Higgs, Jonathon Stone.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Observations of extrasolar planetary systems / Shay Zucker -- Atmospheres of extrasolar planets / L. Jeremy Richardson, Sara Seager -- Terrestrial planet formation / Edward W. Thommes -- From protoplanetary disks to prebiotic amino acids and the origin of the genetic code / Paul G. Higgs, Ralph E. Pudritz -- Emergent phenomena in biology: the origin of cellular life / David Deamer -- Extremophiles: defining the envelope for the search for life in the universe / Lynn Rothschild -- Hyperthermophilic life on Earth -- and on Mars? / Karl O. Stetter -- Phylogenomics: how far back in the past can we go? / Henner Brinkmann, Denis Baurain, Hervé Philippe -- Horizontal gene transfer, gene histories, and the root of the tree of life / Olga Zhaxybayeva, J. Peter Gogarten -- Evolutionary innovation versus ecological incumbency / Adolf Seilacher -- Gradual origin for the metazoans / Alexandra Pontefract, Jonathon Stone -- Search for life on Mars / Chris P. McKay -- Life in the dark dune spots of Mars: a testable hypothesis / Eörs Szathmáry [and others] -- Titan: a new astrobiological vision from the Cassini-Huygens data / François Raulin -- Europa, the ocean moon: tides, permeable ice, and life / Richard Greenberg.

Interdisciplinary overview of astrobiology for students and researchers in astrophysics, planetary science, geosciences, biochemistry, and biology.

English.

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