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Geological Magazine; May 2007; v. 144; no. 3; p. 604-605; DOI: 10.1017/S0016756806002809
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SCHULZE-MAKUCH, D. & IRWIN, L. N. 2006. Life in the Universe: Expectations and Constraints.

xiv + 172 pp. Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer-Verlag. Price £27.00, {euro} 34.95 (+ VAT at local rate), US $44.95 (paperback). ISBN 3 540 30708 7.

Simon Conway Morris

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‘In searching for life beyond Earth, we would be well advised to expect the unusual’. Here in a nutshell (p. 119) is the central theme of this timely and interesting book. If the cynical definition of astrobiology is ‘The study of things that do not exist’, so the counter-point is if they do, they represent one of the most important of scientific questions, not least because if it transpires that on a distant planet there is not only a geology, but geologists. So how different will things really be? Schulze-Makuch & Irwin are broadly . . . [Full Text of this Article]






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