The search for our cosmic ancestry
By: Chandra Wickramasinghe, Buckingham Centre for Astrobiology, UK
Publisher: World Scientific
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9789814616966; 9789814616973
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Extraterrestrial beings; Exobiology; Life on other planets
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 176-186) and index.
Table of contents: title: The: genesis of panspermia; title: The primordial soup and evolution; title: Cosmological context; title: From dust to life; title: Comets; title: Cosmic viruses in our genes; title: Evidence from epidemics; title: Microorganisms entering the Earth; title: Planets of life in the solar system; title: Search for exoplanets; title: Search for extraterrestrial intelligence; title: Meteorite clues; title: Comet impacts and civilization; title: The mystery of red rain.