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[[ https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aaed3a | summary ]]
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Is Earth Exceptional?

The Quest for Cosmic Life

  • Mario Livio & Jack Szostak . 2024 . 576.83 LIVIO . Cedar Mill Library


  • p001 Chapter 1: A Freak Chemical Accident or a Cosmic Imperative?

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  • p025 Chapter 2: The Origin of Life: The RNA World

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  • p039 Chapter 3: The Origin of Life: From Chemistry to Biology

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  • p067 Appendix: Chemical Structures and Reactions

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  • p073 Chapter 4: The Origin of Life: Amino Acids and Peptides

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  • p083 Chapter 5: The Origin of Life: The Road to the Protocell

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  • p119 Chapter 6: Putting it All Together: From Astrophysics and Geology to Chemistry and Biology

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  • p141 Chapter 7: Extraterrestrial Life on Solar System Planets?

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  • p167 Chapter 8: Extraterrestrial Life on Solar System Moons?

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  • p189 Chapter 9: Life Out There: The Astronomical Quest

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  • p219 Chapter 10: Life as We Don't Know It: The Design of Natural and Unnatural Life-Forms

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  • p231 Chapter 11: The Hunt for Intelligence: Preliminary Thoughts

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  • p257 Chapter 12: The Hunt for Intelligence: The Searches

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  • p271 Chapter 13: Epilogue: And Immanent Breakthrough?

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  • p285 Acknowledgements


  • p287 Selected Further Reading
  • p301 Lustin-Yaeger et. al. 2018, "Detecting Ocean Glint on Exoplanets Using Multiphase Mapping," Astronomical Journal 156 no. 6 December


  • p311 Index

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