Originally published: January 14, 2000
Authors: Donald E. Brownlee and Peter Ward
ISBN: 978-0387952895
Pages: 338 pp
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This book marshals data from geology, astronomy, and biology to put forth a radical hypothesis: while primitive organisms such as microbes are very likely ...
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What determines whether complex life will arise on a planet, or even any life at all? Questions such as these are investigated in this groundbreaking book.
No life form has yet been found that can grow or reproduce without liquid water. This restricts life to a fairly narrow range of temperatures, -20 ° to 120 ° C.
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