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

  • Wickramasinghe, Chandra, 1939-
Date:
[2015]
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Publication/Creation

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

Physical description

xx, 196 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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Contents

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.

Bibliographic information

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

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    History of Medicine
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ISBN

  • 9789814616966
  • 9814616966
  • 9789814616973
  • 9814616974