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Publication
Ebury & Vermilion (2004), Paperback, 384 pages
Description
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
User reviews
LibraryThing member fpagan
Bioguy Cohen and mathman Stewart smartly argue that extraterrestrial intelligence probably exists and is utterly unlike Earth's. They really tear into the _Rare Earth_ arguments of Ward & Brownlee (2000).
LibraryThing member TromboneAl
I chose this book to help me design an extraterrestrial species in a book I'm writing. It was not much help in that regard, but did have some interesting thoughts on the possibilities and makeup of extraterrestrial life.
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Original publication date
2002
Physical description
384 p.; 7.64 inches
ISBN
0091886163 / 9780091886165
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