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THOMAS, P. J. HICKS, R. D. CHYBA, C. F. & MCKAY, C. P. (eds) 2006. Comets and the Origin and Evolution of Life, 2nd ed.

xvii +346 pp. Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer-Verlag. Price £54.00 (hard covers). ISBN13 978 3 540 33086 8.

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Where, when, and how life began are the ultimate scientific questions to which there are, as yet, no answers. But evolve we did, so another question is, from what? Comets and the Origin and Evolution of Life is an updated and extensively rewritten second edition of a 1997 conference volume. Since the publication of the original work, there have been theoretical and practical advances in this fast-moving field. For example, several cometary and asteroid sampling missions are either, like Rosetta and Hayabusa, in progress or, like Stardust, have delivered material back to Earth.

In the first chapter, Oró, Lazcano & Ehrenfreund provide an historical background, and pose the question central to the book: ‘Did comets . . . [Full Text of this Article]