- How did the Sun come into existence? - How was the Earth formed? - How long has Earth been the way it is now, with its combination of oceans and continents? - How do you define "life"? - How did the first life forms emerge? - What conditions made it possible for living things to evolve? All these questions are answered in this colourful textbook addressing undergraduate students in "Origins of Life" courses and the scientifically interested public. The authors take the reader on an amazing voyage through time, beginning five thousand million years ago in a cloud of interstellar dust and ending five hundred million years ago, when the living world that we see today was finally formed. A chapter on exoplanets provides an overview of the search for planets outside the solar system, especially for habitable ones. The appendix closes the book with a glossary, a bibliography of further readings and a summary of the Origins of the Earth and life in fourteen boxes.
Produktkennzeichnungen
ISBN-10
3642225519
ISBN-13
9783642225512
eBay Product ID (ePID)
159649716
Produkt Hauptmerkmale
Sprache
Englisch
Anzahl der Seiten
316 Seiten
Verlag
Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Springer Berlin
Autor
Muriel Gargaud
Buchtitel
Young Sun, Early Earth And The Origins of Life
Format
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsjahr
2013
Zusätzliche Produkteigenschaften
Hörbuch
No
Inhaltsbeschreibung
Paperback
Item Length
26cm
Item Height
1cm
Item Width
19cm
Mitautor
Purificación López-García, Thierry Montmerle, Robert Pascal, Hervé Martin
Item Weight
663g
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