01412cam a2200325 a 4500 20230110144551.0 070227s2000 nyum b a001 0 eng 99-020532 0387987010 (hardcover : alk. paper) .b5211417x (OCoLC)40996050 DLC DLC C#P TNV OHX WaOLN OSU& QB54 .W336 2000 QB lcco 576.8/39 21 Ward, Peter Douglas, 1949- Rare earth : why complex life is uncommon in the universe / Peter D. Ward, Donald Brownlee. New York : Copernicus, c2000. xxviii, 333 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-315) and index. Why life might be widespread in the universe -- Habitable zones of the universe -- Building a habitable Earth -- Life's first appearance on Earth -- How to build animals -- Snowball Earth -- The enigma of the Cambrian explosion -- Mass extinctions and the Rare Earth Hypothesis -- The surprising importance of plate tectonics -- The Moon, Jupiter, and life on Earth -- Testing the Rare Earth Hypotheses -- Assessing the odds -- Messengers from the stars. Exobiology. Life on other planets. Brownlee, Donald. &kq000524 YBP lcc 43391 43391 0 0 lcc 0 0 FUJM FUJ FUJ 2023-01-10 0 0225363 2023-01-10 00:00:00 1 2023-01-10 BK VIRTUAITEM 0 0 lcc 0 0 RKLM RKL RKL 2023-01-10 0 0225361 2023-01-10 00:00:00 1 2023-01-10 BK VIRTUAITEM 0 0 lcc 0 0 UQLM UQL UQL 2023-01-10 0 0225362 2023-01-10 00:00:00 1 2023-01-10 BK VIRTUAITEM