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Habitability of the Universe before Earth
Academic Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-12-811940-2 (ISBN)
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.
Richard Gordon is a Theoretical Biologist at the Gulf Specimen Marine Laboratory (Panacea, FL), as well as an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology at Wayne State University (Detroit, MI). Dr. Gordon was Professor at the University of Manitoba until his retirement in 2011. He holds an undergraduate degree in Mathematics from the University of Chicago and a PhD in Chemical Physics from the University of Oregon under Terrell Hill. He has edited 16 academic books and special issues plus two monographs. He was summoned twice to the Canadian Parliament to testify as an expert scientific witness on the grant system. Dr. Gordon has published over 200 peer reviewed articles in mathematics, engineering, physics and chemistry. He wrote the first paper on diatom nanotechnology, founding that field. He started the field of adaptive image processing and published on algal biofuels, computed tomography, AIDS prevention, neural tube defects, embryo physics, and research and social ethics. His interest in astrobiology dates back to work on the Orgueil meteorite as an undergraduate in Edward Anders' lab at the University of Chicago. The full list of publications by Richard Gordon is available at http://tinyurl.com/DickGordon. He may be reached at DickGordonCan@gmail.com. Dr. Richard Gordon Retired from the University of Manitoba Theoretical Biologist. Gulf Specimen Marine Laboratory & Aquarium Adjunct Professor, C.S. Mott Center for Human Growth & Development Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Wayne State University Alexei Sharov started his career as an entomologist and ecologist, but soon realized that he had to answer more fundamental questions: what is life, how it evolves, learns, and functions. Thus he got involved in the Research Group on Theoretical Biology at Moscow State University, and started publishing theoretical papers. Later he organized a seminar and two conferences on Biosemiotics, which is a synthesis of biology and semiotics, a theory on signs and meanings. Since 2002, he has worked in molecular biology and bioinformatics, and this new field helped him to advance further in the area of theoretical biology and biosemiotics. He has published over 200 papers and edited a special issue.
Preface: Life as a Cosmic Phenomenon
Part I: Physical and Chemical Constraints 1. Gravity and life 2. Radiation as a constraint for life in the universe 3. The when and where of water in the history of the universe 4. The cosmic evolution of biochemistry 5. Astrophysical and cosmological constraints on life 6. Primitive carbon: Before Earth and much before any life on it
Part II: Predicting Habitability 7. The habitability of our evolving galaxy 8. N-body simulations and galactic habitability 9. Occupied and empty regions of the space of extremophile parameters 10. The emergence of structured, living and conscious matter in the evolution of the universe: A theory of structural evolution and interaction of matter
Part III: Life in the Cosmic Scale 11. Life before Earth 12. Earth before life 13. The time-dependent Drake equation 14. Are we the first? 10 billion years of evolution before Earth 15. Life before its origin on Earth: Implications of a late emergence of terrestrial life
Part IV: System Properties of Life 16. Symbiosis: Why was the transition from microbial prokaryotes to eukaryotic organisms a cosmic gigayear event? 17. Coenzyme world model of the origin of life 18. Emergence of polygonal shapes in oil droplets and living cells: The potential role of tensegrity in the origin of life 19. Why on theoretical grounds it may be likely that ‘life’ exists throughout the universe
Erscheinungsdatum | 03.02.2018 |
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Reihe/Serie | Astrobiology Exploring Life on Earth and Beyond |
Verlagsort | San Diego |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 191 x 235 mm |
Gewicht | 1180 g |
Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution |
Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz | |
Technik ► Luft- / Raumfahrttechnik | |
ISBN-10 | 0-12-811940-3 / 0128119403 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-12-811940-2 / 9780128119402 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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