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Biomedical and Life Sciences

Life as We Know It

Joseph Seckbach

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i-xxvii
Front matter
3-143
Part 1 / Life as we know it
3-143
Biodiversity and Extremophiles
147-535
Part 2 / Life in the context of the new science of astrobiology
147-198
The Origin of Life on Earth and in the Universe
199-372
The Evolution of Life on Earth and in the Universe
373-503
The Distribution of Life in the Universe
505-535
The Destiny of Life in the Universe
539-733
Part 3 / Deeper issues of the phenomenon of life
539-653
Philosophical and Theological Aspects of Life
655-706
Human Life as a Social Phenomenon
707-733
Artificial Life
737-743
Part 4 / Summary and conclusions
737-743
What do we call life? A Brief Outlook on Life
745-765
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Title

Life as We Know It

Editor

Joseph Seckbach(1)

Editor Affiliations

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Israel

Collection

Biomedical and Life Sciences

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Copyright Year

2006

DOI

10.1007/978-1-4020-4403-8

ISBN

978-1-4020-4394-9 (Print) 978-1-4020-4403-8 (Online)

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Springer Netherlands

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Thursday, September 21, 2006

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