Table of Contents
Preface
Part I. Planetary Systems and the Origins of Life:
1. Observations of extrasolar planetary systems Shay Zucker
2. The atmospheres of extrasolar planets L. Jeremy Richardson and Sara Seager
3. Terrestrial planet formation Edward Thommes
4. Protoplanetary disks, amino acids and the genetic code Paul Higgs and Ralph Pudritz
5. Emergent phenomena in biology: the origin of cellular life David Deamer
Part II. Life on Earth:
6. Extremophiles: defining the envelope for the search for life in the Universe Lynn Rothschild
7. Hyperthermophilic life on Earth - and on Mars? Karl Stetter
8. Phylogenomics: how far back in the past can we go? Henner Brinkmann, Denis Baurain and Hervé Philippe
9. Horizontal gene transfer, gene histories and the root of the tree of life Olga Zhaxybayeva and J. Peter Gogarten
10. Evolutionary innovation versus ecological incumbency Adolf Seilacher
11. Gradual origins for the Metazoans Alexandra Pontefract and Jonathan Stone
Part III. Life in the Solar System?:
12. The search for life on Mars Chris McKay
13. Life in the dark dune spots of Mars: a testable hypothesis Eörs Szathmary, Tibor Ganti, Tamas Pocs, Andras Horvath, Akos Kereszturi, Szaniszlo Berzci and Andras Sik
14. Titan: a new astrobiological vision from the Cassini-Huygens data François Raulin
15. Europa, the Ocean Moon: tides, permeable ice, and life Richard Greenberg
Index.
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