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Are we being watched? : the search for life in the cosmos / Paul Murdin.

by Murdin, Paul.

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Thames & Hudson, 2013.

Life on other planets.

Habitable planets.

Life -- Origin.

9780500516713 (hc.)

0500516715 (hc.)

224 p. ; ill. (chiefly col.) ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: In search of new lands and peoples -- The century of astrobiology -- Other worlds -- In search of alien intelligence -- Life in the Solar System -- The Earth, life's home -- Life gets going -- The spark of life's beginning -- Evolution of a planet -- The evolution of life -- The sun: source of vital- or death-dealing- energy -- Life and the climate -- Considering disasters -- Mars: dead or alive? -- Ice world: Europa -- Glimpses of the old Earth: Enceladus and Titan -- Are we lonely, or really alone?

Murdin invites readers to join him in exploring an extraordinary array of evidence on how life developed on Earth, and how it could have developed on other planets. He examines who forms it might take, and how likely we are to be able to communicate with aliens if we do make contact.

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