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Astrobiology : a brief introduction / Kevin W. Plaxco and Michael Gross. - 2nd ed. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. - xi, 330 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes index.

What is life? -- The making of a habitable universe -- The making of a habitable planet -- Primordial soup -- The spark of life -- From molecules to cells -- A concise history of life on Earth -- Life on the edge -- Habitable worlds in the solar system and beyond -- The search for ET.

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Life--Origin.
Exobiology.

QH325 / .P57 2011

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