Young Sun, Early Earth and the Origins of Life
Young Sun, Early Earth and the Origins of Life
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年轻的太阳、早期地球和生命的起源
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10.1007/978-3-642-22552-9
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2013
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R. Pascal
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作者：
M. Gargaud;H. Martin;P. López‐García;T. Montmerle;R. Pascal
太阳是如何形成的？地球是怎样形成的？地球变成现在这个样子有多久了，海洋和大陆的结合？你如何定义“生命”？最初的生命形式是如何出现的？什么样的条件使生物进化成为可能？所有这些问题都在这本色彩缤纷的教科书中得到了回答，这本教科书面向的是“生命起源”课程的本科生和对科学感兴趣的公众。作者带领读者进行了一次惊人的时间之旅，从50亿年前的星际尘埃云开始，到5亿年前结束，我们今天看到的生命世界终于形成了。关于系外行星的一章概述了太阳系外行星的搜索，特别是可居住的行星。附录以词汇表、进一步阅读的参考书目以及14个盒子中的地球和生命起源的摘要结束了这本书。
-How did the Sun come into existence?-How was the Earth formed?-How long has Earth been the way it is now, with its combination of oceans and continents?-How do you define “life”?-How did the first life forms emerge?-What conditions made it possible for living things to evolve? All these questions are answered in this colourful textbook addressing undergraduate students in" Origins of Life" courses and the scientifically interested public. The authors take the reader on an amazing voyage through time, beginning five thousand million years ago in a cloud of interstellar dust and ending five hundred million years ago, when the living world that we see today was finally formed. A chapter on exoplanets provides an overview of the search for planets outside the solar system, especially for habitable ones. The appendix closes the book with a glossary, a bibliography of further readings and a summary of the Origins of the Earth and life in fourteen boxes.