The Nature of Life and Its Potential to Survive

• Main Author: Stevenson, David S. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Astronomers' Universe,
• Subjects: Popular works.; Planetology.; Evolutionary biology.; Astrobiology.; Astronomy.; Popular Science.; Popular Science in Astronomy.; Evolutionary Biology.

This book looks at the persistence of life and how difficult it would be to annihilate life, especially a species as successful as humanity. The idea that life in general is fragile is challenged by the hardiness of microbes, which shows that astrobiology on exoplanets and other satellites must be r...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Chapter 1 – What is Life?
• Chapter 2 – Life’s Grand Themes
• Chapter 3 – The Origin of Life on Earth
• Chapter 4 – Life as the Evolution of Information
• Chapter 5 – Life Jim, But Not as We Know It
• Chapter 6 - Extinction
• Chapter 7- Agents of Mass Destruction
• Chapter 8 - Ultimately, Can Life Survive?
• Chapter 9 - A Thesis on Life, the Universe and Almost Everything Else
• Glossary
• Index.