Fitness of the Cosmos for Life
Subtitle: Biochemistry and Fine-Tuning (Cambridge Astrobiology)
Contributors: John Barrow (Editor); Simon Conway Morris (Editor); Stephen Freeland (Editor); Charles Harper (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 14, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 526
ISBN-13: 9780521871020
Subjects: Biology, Life Sciences; Cosmology & the universe; Science; Science/Mathematics; Astronomy - General; Science / Astronomy
Description: "This highly interdisciplinary book highlights many of the ways in which chemistry plays a crucial role in making life an evolutionary possibility in the universe. Cosmologists and particle physicists have often explored how the observed laws and constants of nature lie within a narrow range that allows complexity and life to evolve and adapt. Here, these anthropic considerations are diversified in a host of new ways to identify the most senstive features of biochemistry and astrobiology."--Cover.