Editors:
- First comprehensive, beginning level book on the emergent science of astrobiology
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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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Back Matter
About this book
Based on material delivered at several summer schools, this book is the first comprehensive textbook at the graduate level encompassing all aspects associated with the emerging field of astrobiology.
Volume II gathers another set of extensive lectures covering topics so diverse as the formation and the distribution of elements in the universe, the concept of habitability from both the planetologists' and the biologists' point of view and artificial life. The contributions are held together by the common goal to understand better the origin of life, its evolution and possible existence outside the Earth's realm.
The volume ends with 120 pages of a very useful appendix comprising "Some Astrophysical Reminders", "Useful Astrobiological Data" and "An Astrobiological Glossary".
Editors and Affiliations
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Observatoire Aquitain des Sciences de l’Univers, Université Bordeaux 1, Floirac, France
Muriel Gargaud
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Laboratoire Magmas et Volcans, Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Hervé Martin
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Department of Geology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
Philippe Claeys
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Lectures in Astrobiology
Book Subtitle: Volume II
Editors: Muriel Gargaud, Hervé Martin, Philippe Claeys
Series Title: Advances in Astrobiology and Biogeophysics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-33693-8
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-33692-1Published: 20 November 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-07025-9Published: 22 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-33693-8Published: 05 January 2007
Series ISSN: 1610-8957
Series E-ISSN: 1613-1851
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 669
Topics: Biogeosciences, Geophysics/Geodesy, Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics)