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100 1 _aWard, Peter Douglas,
_d1949-
245 1 0 _aRare earth :
_bwhy complex life is uncommon in the universe /
_cPeter D. Ward, Donald Brownlee.
260 _aNew York :
_bCopernicus,
_cc2000.
300 _axxviii, 333 p. :
_bill. ;
_c25 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 289-315) and index.
505 0 _aWhy 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.
650 0 _aExobiology.
650 0 _aLife on other planets.
700 1 _aBrownlee, Donald.
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