Lectures in astrobiology
By: Muriel Gargaud ... [et al.] (eds.) ; with a preface by Christian de Duve.
Contributors: Gargaud, Muriel.; Exobio '01 (2001 : La Colle-sur-Loup, France)
Series: Advances in astrobiology and biogeophysics
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 792
Subjects: Life -- Origin -- Congresses.; Exobiology -- Congresses.; Life on other planets -- Congresses.; Molecular evolution -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Description: Based on material delivered at several summer schools, this book is the first comprehensive textbook at the graduate level encompassing all aspects associated with the emerging field of astrobiology. Volume II gathers another set of extensive lectures covering topics so diverse as the formation and the distribution of elements in the Universe, the concept of habitability from both the planetologists' and the biologists' point of view and artificial life. The contributions are held together by the common goal to understand better the origin of life, its evolution and possible existence outside the Earth's realm.
Notes: The first volume of Lectures in astrobiology resulted out of the first two CNRS summer schools Exobio'99 in Propriano and Exobio'01 in La Colle-sur-Loup.

Includes bibliographical references and index.