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" What does a martian look like? : "
Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart.
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1020777
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b775147
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Cohen, Jack.
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What does a martian look like? : : the science of extraterrestrial life /\ Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart.
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Hoboken, N.J. :: J. Wiley,, ©2002.
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1 online resource (xiii, 369 pages)
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0471447080
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: 1280365196
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0091879272
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0471268895
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9780091879273
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9780471268895
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"Originally published in the United Kingdom by Ebury Press in 2002 under the title Evolving the alien"--Title page verso.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 346-353) and index.
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| Contents
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WHAT DOES A MARTIAN LOOK LIKE?; CONTENTS; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Astrobiology and Xenoscience; 2 The Invisible Book; 3 Aliens, Aliens and Aliens; 4 Not-Quite Life; 5 Possibilities of Life; 6 The Drake Equation; 7 The Evolution of Alien Life; 8 Dragons, Teddy Bears, and Toddlers; 9 Modelling Alien Ecosystems; 10 Not As We Know It; 11 The Sensual Tribble; 12 The Universality of Extelligence; 13 Have Aliens Visited Us?; 14 Galactic Empires; Popular Xenoscience Reading List; Technical Xenoscience Reading List; Index.
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Since H.G. Wells's War of the Worlds startled Victorian sensibilities with the outlandish notion of an invasion from Mars, we have become increasingly obsessed with the possibility of extraterrestrial life. From Klingons to Ewoks to giant blobs of goo, we have imagined space aliens in every conceivable form. But if aliens do exist (and they probably do), what do they really look like? Would we recognize alien life if we saw it? Given the rules that science has devised for life on earth, can we predict how evolution might proceed in environments quite different from our comfortable air-and-wa.
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Exobiology.
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Life on other planets.
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Exobiology.
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Life on other planets.
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SCIENCE-- Life Sciences-- Evolution.
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576.8/39
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QB54.C64 2002eb
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Stewart, Ian,1945-
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