John Postgate, Postgate

The Outer Reaches of Life

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The invisible world of microbes - capable of surviving in the most harsh and inhospitable conditions on earth - reveals the remarkable potential and resilience of life itself. John Postgate's fascinating exploration of these outer reaches of life shows how understanding microbes can provide new clues to the origin and evolution of terrestrial life, and offers glimpses of how life might have established itself elsewhere in the universe.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 415g
• ISBN-13: 9780521558730
• ISBN-10: 0521558735
• Artikelnr.: 21290814

Inhaltsangabe

1. Microbes and terrestrial life
2. Some like it hot
3. Cool, man, cool
4. The big squeeze
5. A salty tale
6. Corrosive and slippery places
7. Life without oxygen
8. Living on minerals
9. Exotic menus
10. Of wraiths and ghosts
11. The inertness of nitrogen
12. Getting about
13. Microsenses
14. A private space
15. Company
16. Immortality and the Big Sleep
17. Self-adjustment
18. Life's outer reaches.