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Here Be Dragons
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David Koerner Simon LeVay OXFORD UN
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Contents Acknowledgments vi Introdu
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Here Be Dragons
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Introduction V* At the Institute fo
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INTRODUCTION Sun—towers above the
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INTRODUCTION force and nature remai
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INTRODUCTION So terrestrial biology
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INTRODUCTION No amount of learned d
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1 Origins How Life on Earth Beganl
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ORIGINS longer periods of time: tha
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ORIGINS sistency of events happenin
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ORIGINS Lucretius, whose belief in
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ORIGINS After a week, he analyzed w
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ORIGINS Earth's history, the Sun wa
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ORIGINS supply should be biased tow
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ORIGINS There is a third possibilit
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ORIGINS good humor. And something s
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ORIGINS life that may have taken ho
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ORIGINS 1.3 Chemical structure of D
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ORIGINS leave it for 10 billion yea
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ORIGINS University of Colorado and
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ORIGINS RNA world to the RNA world,
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1 Going to Extremes The Habitats an
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GOING TO EXTREMES the bottom, that'
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GOING TO EXTREMES the cyanobacteria
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GOING TO EXTREMES tirely new hole,
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GOING TO EXTREMES surface, but ther
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GOING TO EXTREMES Japan. 6 To under
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GOING TO EXTREMES to methane lowers
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GOING TO EXTREMES thermophiles. If
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GOING TO EXTREMES 2.1 Carl Woese's
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GOING TO EXTREMES mains gave rise t
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GOING TO EXTREMES species, but a la
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E -m The Death and Life of Stars Or
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THE DEATH AND LIFE OF STARS Nichola
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THE DEATH AND LIFE OF STARS Orion i
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THE DEATH AND LIFE OF STARS gravity
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THE DEATH AND LIFE OF STARS flowing
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THE DEATH AND LIFE OF STARS the inf
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THE DEATH AND LIFE OF STARS likely
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THE DEATH AND LIFE OF STARS been ev
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THE DEATH AND LIFE OF STARS duced t
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] The Planet Finders Searching for
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THE PLANET FINDERS Conceptually, th
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THE PLANET FINDERS astronomical his
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THE PLANET FINDERS star at a distan
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THE PLANET FINDERS mass of about th
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THE PLANET FINDERS whether "M stars
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THE PLANET FINDERS was orbiting the
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THE PLANET FINDERS Algol's stellar
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THE PLANET FINDERS fronts) of the l
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THE PLANET FINDERS seconds, which m
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THE PLANET FINDERS tain spectra of
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4 What Happens in Evolution? Chance
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WHAT HAPPENS IN EVOLUTION? sequence
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WHAT HAPPENS IN EVOLUTION? The prop
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Now you don't see it—now you do.
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Coping with heat. One way organisms
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Starbirth. This is a map of far inf
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Imaging extrasolar planets by nulli
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WHAT HAPPENS IN EVOLUTION? erative
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WHAT HAPPENS IN EVOLUTION? cycle is
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WHAT HAPPENS IN EVOLUTION? mains of
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WHAT HAPPENS IN EVOLUTION? ful orga
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WHAT HAPPENS IN EVOLUTION? Gould's
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WHAT HAPPENS IN EVOLUTION? ning and
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WHAT HAPPENS IN EVOLUTION? tion of
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WHAT HAPPENS IN EVOLUTION? contain
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WHAT HAPPENS IN EVOLUTION? What doe
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1 SETI The Search for Extraterrestr
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SETI Congress to denounce the fledg
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SETI to let us know that he has fin
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SETI Before it was axed by Congress
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SETI 7.1 Project Phoenix detects an
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SETI of the signal as received by t
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SETI scientists who had recently ob
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SETI during the Soviet era. Two ast
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SETI assesses Drake's estimate that
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SETI believe that there are unexpla
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SETI technological civilizations pe
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SETI would take "miracles" for any
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a Dreamland} The Science and Religi
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DREAMLAND sells books and UFO colle
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DREAMLAND are there for. I can't sa
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DREAMLAND ers, but the medical prof
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DREAMLAND ground. And Jacques Valle
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DREAMLAND rent cultural milieu, mos
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i Exotica Life as We Don't Know It
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EXOTICA one would expect to find th
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EXOTICA while a silicon atom prefer
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EXOTICA mote from what we commonly
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EXOTICA within the Sun. Using this
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EXOTICA partially overcomes the "br
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EXOTICA Tierra, in which the Tierra
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EXOTICA cated machinery which was n
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EXOTICA team, he thinks that highly
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EXOTICA hard to imagine any outcome
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EXOTICA tend to maintain that envir
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