Advances in genetics. Volume one hundred and six, Cosmic genetic evolution /

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Group Author: Steele, E. J., 1948- (Editor); Wickramasinghe, Chandra, 1939- (Editor)
Published: Academic Press,
Publisher Address: Cambridge, MA :
Publication Dates: 2020.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Edition: First edition.
Series: Advances in genetics, volume 106
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Carrier Form: xviii, 143 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 23 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN: 9780128215180
0128215186
Index Number: QH390
CLC: Q3-1
Call Number: Q3-1/A244/v.106
Contents: Intro -- Cosmic Genetic Evolution -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Foreword: Some things are simply given -- References -- Preface: The origin of life and astrobiology -- Disclaimer and acknowledgements -- Chapter One: Introduction-Panspermia, 2020 -- References -- Chapter Two: Cometary panspermia and origin of life? -- 1. Historical context -- 2. Earliest life on Earth -- 3. Improbability of the origin of life -- 4. Interstellar dust, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) and biological molecules -- 5. Comets and biomaterial -- 6. Some predictions of interstellar panspermia