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Gargaud, Muriel |
Young Sun, Early Earth and the Origins of Life |
I07800 |
2012 |
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Gargaud, Muriel |
From Suns to Life: A Chronological Approach to the History of Life on Earth |
I06789 |
2006 |
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| Title | Young Sun, Early Earth and the Origins of Life : Lessons for Astrobiology |
| Author(s) | Gargaud, Muriel;Martin, Herv??;L??pez-Garc??a, Purificaci??n;Montmerle, Thierry;Pascal, Robert |
| Publication | Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012. |
| Description | XII, 301 p. 303 illus., 250 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | How did the Sun come into existence? - How was the Earth formed? - How long has Earth been the way it is now, with its combination of oceans and continents? - How do you define ???life???? - How did the first life forms emerge? - What conditions made it possible for living things to evolve? All these questions are answered in this colourful textbook addressing undergraduate students in "Origins of Life" courses and the scientifically interested public. The authors take the reader on an amazing voyage through time, beginning five thousand million years ago in a cloud of interstellar dust and ending five hundred million years ago, when the living world that we see today was finally formed. A chapter on exoplanets provides an overview of the search for planets outside the solar system, especially for habitable ones. The appendix closes the book with a glossary, a bibliography of further readings and a summary of the Origins of the Earth and life in??fourteen boxes |
| ISBN,Price | 9783642225529 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. ASTROBIOLOGY
2. Biogeosciences
3. EBOOK
4. EBOOK - SPRINGER
5. Evolutionary Biology
6. Geobiology
7. PLANETOLOGY
8. SPACE SCIENCES
9. Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics)
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| Title | From Suns to Life: A Chronological Approach to the History of Life on Earth |
| Author(s) | Gargaud, Muriel;Claeys, Philippe;L??pez-Garc??a, Purificaci??n;Martin, Herv??;Montmerle, Thierry;Pascal, Robert;Reisse, Jacques |
| Publication | New York, NY, Springer New York, 2006. |
| Description | VIII, 370 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This review emerged from several interdisciplinary meetings and schools gathering a group of astronomers, geologists, biologists, and chemists, attempting to share their specialized knowledge around a common question: how did life emerge on Earth? Their ultimate goal was to provide some kind of answer as a prerequisite to an even more demanding question: is life universal? The resulting state-of-the-art articles were written by twenty-five scientists telling a not-so linear story, but on the contrary, highlighting problems, gaps, and controversies. Needless to say, this approach yielded no definitive answers to both questions. However, by adopting a chronological approach to the question of the emergence of life on Earth, the only place where we know for sure that life exists; it was possible to break down this question into several sub-topics that can be addressed by the different disciplines. The main chapters of this review present the formation and evolution of the solar system (3); the building of a habitable planet (4); prebiotic chemistry, biochemistry, and the emergence of life (5); the environmental context of the early Earth (6); and the ancient fossil record and early evolution (7). The concluding chapter (9) provides the highlights of the review and presents the different points of view about the universality of life. Two pedagogical chapters are included; one on chronometers (2), another in the form of a "frieze" (8) which summarizes in graphical form the present state of knowledge about the chronology of the emergence of life on Earth, before the Cambrian explosion |
| ISBN,Price | 9780387450834 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. ASTROBIOLOGY
2. Astronomy, Observations and Techniques
3. Astronomy???Observations
4. EBOOK
5. EBOOK - SPRINGER
6. Observations, Astronomical
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