Editors:
- Provides a state-of-the-art overview of the timely topic of biosignatures
- Serves as key book to understand biosignatures from interdisciplinary perspectives
- Edited and authored by experienced scientists active in astrobiology
- Includes a chapter on specific biosignatures providing a definition, describing methodology and offering an outlook to future development
Part of the book series: Advances in Astrobiology and Biogeophysics (ASTROBIO)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Biosignatures on Earth
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Biosignatures, Instruments and Missions
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Biosignatures in a Philosophical Perspective
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About this book
The book will be of interest not only to astrobiologists but also to terrestrial paleontologists as well as any reader interested in the prospects of finding a second example of life on anotherplanet.
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Editors and Affiliations
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Dipartimento di Scienze Biologiche, Geologiche e Ambientali, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Barbara Cavalazzi
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Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire, CNRS, Orléans, France
Frances Westall
About the editors
Barbara Cavalazzi is Professor at the University of Bologna and appointed as Visiting Professor at the University of Johannesburg. She is expert in high-resolution analytical technics applied to microbialpalaeontology, and in field geology and Mars analogues.
Frances Westall is Director of Research at the CNRS and Head of the Astrobiology Group in Orléans. President of the European Astrobiology Network Association, she is a specialist on microbial biosignatures, Early Earth geology and is part of the ExoMars2020 rover mission.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Biosignatures for Astrobiology
Editors: Barbara Cavalazzi, Frances Westall
Series Title: Advances in Astrobiology and Biogeophysics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96175-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-96174-3Published: 11 October 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07147-9Published: 28 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-96175-0Published: 01 October 2018
Series ISSN: 1610-8957
Series E-ISSN: 1613-1851
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 347
Number of Illustrations: 27 b/w illustrations, 37 illustrations in colour
Topics: Astrobiology, Biochemistry, general, Paleontology, Microbiology, Mineralogy, Philosophy of Biology