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From Suns to Life: A Chronological Approach to the History of Life on Earth

This review emerged from several interdisciplinary meetings and schools gathering a group of astronomers, geologists, biologists, and chemists, attempting to share their specialized knowledge around a common question: how did life emerge on Earth? Their ultimate goal was to provide some kind of answ...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Gargaud, Muriel. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Claeys, Philippe. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), López-García, Purificación. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Martin, Hervé. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Montmerle, Thierry. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Pascal, Robert. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Reisse, Jacques. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2006.
Edition:1st ed. 2006.
Subjects:
Observations, Astronomical.
Astronomy—Observations.
Astrobiology.
Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-45083-4
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Table of Contents:
  • From the Arrow of Time to the Arrow of Life
  • Dating Methods and Corresponding Chronometers in Astrobiology
  • Solar System Formation and Early Evolution: the First 100 Million Years
  • Building of a Habitable Planet
  • Prebiotic Chemistry — Biochemistry — Emergence of Life (4.4-2 Ga)
  • Environmental Context
  • Ancient Fossil Record and Early Evolution (ca. 3.8 to 0.5 Ga)
  • A Synthetic Interdisciplinary “Chronological Frieze”: an Attempt
  • Life On Earth... And Elsewhere?.

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