Here be dragons : the scientific quest for extraterrestrial life /
The discovery of life on other planets would be perhaps the most momentous revelation in human history, more disorienting and more profound than either the Copernican or Darwinian revolutions, which knocked the earth from the center of the universe and humankind from its position of lofty self-regar...
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2000
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
