Habitability of the Universe before Earth —— Astrobiology: Exploring Life on Earth and Beyond (series)

----- 在地球的宇宙天体生物学：探索生命适居性：在地球和超越

ISBN: 9780128119402 出版年：2017 页码：578 Academic Press_RM

Habitability of the Universe before Earth: Astrobiology: Exploring Life on Earth and Beyond (series) examines the times and placesefore life existed on Earthhat might have provided suitable environments for life to occur, addressing the question: Is life on Earth de novo, or derived from previous life? The universe changed considerably during the vast epoch between the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago and the first evidence of life on Earth 4.3 billion years ago, providing significant time and space to contemplate where, when and under what circumstances life might have arisen. No other book covers this cosmic time period from the point of view of its potential for life. The series covers a broad range of topics encompassing laboratory and field research into the origins and evolution of life on Earth, life in extreme environments and the search for habitable environments in our solar system and beyond, including exoplanets, exomoons and astronomical biosignatures.Provides multiple hypotheses on the origin of life and distribution of living organisms in spaceExplores the diversity of physical environments that may support the origin and evolution of lifeIntegrates contemporary views in biology and cosmology, and provides reasons that life is far more mobile in space than most people expectIncludes access to a companion web site featuring supplementary information such as animated computer simulations