The search for our cosmic ancestry / Chandra Wickramasinghe, Buckingham Centre for Astrobiology, UK.

Hackensack, New Jersey : World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., [2015]

xx, 196 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 176-186) and index.

The: genesis of panspermia -- The primordial soup and evolution -- Cosmological context -- From dust to life -- Comets -- Cosmic viruses in our genes -- Evidence from epidemics -- Microorganisms entering the Earth -- Planets of life in the solar system -- Search for exoplanets -- Search for extraterrestrial intelligence -- Meteorite clues -- Comet impacts and civilization -- The mystery of red rain.