First Life: Discovering the Connections Between Stars, Planets, and How Life Began

by David Deamer and David W. Deamer

Book Overview

This pathbreaking book explores how life can begin, taking us from cosmic clouds of stardust, to volcanoes on Earth, to the modern chemistry laboratory. Seeking to understand life's connection to the stars, David Deamer introduces astrobiology, a new scientific discipline that studies the origin and evolution of life on Earth and relates it to the birth and death of stars, planet formation, interfaces between minerals, water, and atmosphere, and the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520258320
• ISBN13: 9780520258327
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.3" x 10.1"