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Fitness of the Cosmos for Life

This highly interdisciplinary book highlights many of the ways in which chemistry plays a crucial role in making life an evolutionary possibility in the universe. Cosmologists and particle physicists have often explored how the observed laws and constants of nature lie within a narrow range that allows complexity and life to evolve and adapt. Here, these anthropic considerations are diversified in a host of new ways to identify the most sensitive features of biochemistry and astrobiology. Celebrating the classic 1913 work of Lawrence J. Henderson, The Fitness of the Environment for Life, this book looks at the delicate balance between chemistry and the ambient conditions in the universe that permit complex chemical networks and structures to exist. It will appeal to a broad range of scientists, academics, and others interested in the origin and existence of life in our universe.

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Title of ebook: Fitness of the Cosmos for Life
ISBN: 9780511368035
parent-ISBN: 9780521871020
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Internet download file size: 10734 kb
Published: 12-2007
Released online for download: 12-06-2007
Editor: Barrow,John D.
Editor: Morris,Simon Conway
Editor: Freeland,Stephen J.

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