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Product Description: What determines whether complex life will arise on a planet, or even any life at all? Questions such as these are investigated in this groundbreaking book. In doing so, the authors synthesize information from astronomy, biology, and paleontology, and apply it to what we know about the rise of life on Earth and to what could possibly happen elsewhere in the universe...read more
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9780387952895 | Copernicus Books, December 1, 2003, cover price $16.95
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9781439568927 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, November 3, 2008), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: What determines whether complex life will arise on a planet, or even any life at all?
A revealing exploration of the latest NASA research into the possibility of extraterrestrial life also poses a hypothesis about the origins of life on Earth, examining the controversial idea of creating non-DNA life in a laboratory as well as the scientific possibilities of the range of life throughout the universe. By the author of Gorgon. Reprint. 20,000 first prinitng.
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9780670034581 | Viking Pr, November 3, 2005, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Explores research into extraterrestrial life and hypothesizes about the origins of life on Earth, examining the idea of creating non-DNA life in a laboratory as well as the scientific possibilities of life throughout the universe.
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9780143038498 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, February 27, 2007), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A revealing exploration of the latest NASA research into the possibility of extraterrestrial life also poses a hypothesis about the origins of life on Earth, examining the controversial idea of creating non-DNA life in a laboratory as well as the scientific possibilities of the range of life throughout the universe.
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9780309100618 | Natl Academy Pr, October 30, 2006, cover price $27.95
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9780805067811 | Times Books, January 1, 2003, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Charts the story of the second half of the planet Earth's life, predicting that the process of planetary evolution will effectively reverse itself until life discontinues and the Earth becomes engulfed by an expanding sun.
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9780805075120 | 2 reprint edition (Henry Holt & Co, January 1, 2004), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Draws on current findings in astrobiology to chart the story of the second half of the planet Earth's life, predicting that the process of planetary evolution will effectively reverse itself until life discontinues and the world becomes engulfed by an expanding sun.
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9780231118620 | Rev upd su edition (Columbia Univ Pr, March 1, 2001), cover price $80.00 | About this edition: Several times in the distant past, catastrophic extinctions have swept the Earth, causing more than half of all speciesâfrom single-celled organisms to awe-inspiring behemothsâto suddenly vanish and be replaced by new life forms.
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9780231118637 | Rev upd edition (Columbia Univ Pr, December 1, 2002), cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Several times in the distant past, catastrophic extinctions have swept the Earth, causing more than half of all speciesâfrom single-celled organisms to awe-inspiring behemothsâto suddenly vanish and be replaced by new life forms.
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9780716734963 | 1 edition (W H Freeman & Co, December 1, 2001), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Argues against the theories which predict the extinction of the human species, providing a chilling forecast of the role of mankind in future evolutionary changes.
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9780387987019 | Copernicus Books, January 1, 2000, cover price $99.00 | About this edition: Explains that conditions on Earth and other planets facilitate simple lifeforms, and that complex plant and animal life maybe more rare than historically predicted.
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9780387949154 | Copernicus Books, March 1, 1997, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: This volume on animal extinction looks at the different causes of extinction, including natural catastrophies, human hunting pressure, and the growth of worldwide human technological society
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9780387985725 | Copernicus Books, October 1, 1998, cover price $16.95
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9780387984162 | Copernicus Books, September 1, 1998, cover price $32.95
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9780553374698 | Bantam Dell Pub Group, September 1, 1995, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: A paleontologist draws on contemporary research and the fossil record to recreate prehistoric life and to search for clues to the catastrophic mass extinctions that have greatly impacted evolution
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9780553088120 | Bantam Dell Pub Group, July 1, 1994, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: A paleontologist draws on present-day research and the fossil record to recreate prehistoric life and to search for clues to the catastrophic mass extinctions that have transformed the evolution of life
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9780716722038 | W H Freeman & Co, September 1, 1991, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Presents examples of animals, such as the horseshoe crab, which have existed through ice ages, changes in ocean levels, and more, while other species have died out
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9780716724889 | Reprint edition (W H Freeman & Co, April 1, 1993), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Presents examples of animals, such as the horseshoe crab, which have existed through ice ages, changes in ocean levels, and more, while other species have died out
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9780045000364 | Unwin Hyman, December 1, 1987, cover price $65.00
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