Origins and extinctions
Subtitle: based on a Symposium on Life and the Universe, held at the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C., April 30, 1986
By: edited by Donald E. Osterbrock and Peter H. Raven ; contributors, Alan H. Guth ... [et al.].
Contributors: Osterbrock, Donald E.; Raven, Peter H.; Guth, Alan H.; Symposium on Life and the Universe (1986 : National Academy of Sciences)
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1988
Place of publication: New Haven [Conn.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 121
Subjects: Cosmology -- Congresses; Earth -- Origin -- Congresses
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Donald E. Osterbrock and Peter H. Raven; title: The birth of the cosmos / Alan H. Guth; title: The formation of the earth / George W. Wetherill; title: The ancient microcosm of planet earth / Lynn Margulis; title: Extinction in the geologic past / David M. Raup.