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Weird Life: The Search for Life That Is Very, Very Different from Our Own
David Toomey
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Description for Weird Life: The Search for Life That Is Very, Very Different from Our Own
Paperback. "Weird indeed, and not a little wonderful."-Nature Num Pages: 330 pages, 10 illustrations. BIC Classification: PDZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 139 x 206 x 19. Weight in Grams: 250.
In the 1980s and 1990s, in places where no one thought it possible, scientists found organisms they called extremophiles: lovers of extremes. There were bacteria in volcanic hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor, single-celled algae in Antarctic ice floes, and fungi in the cooling pools of nuclear reactors. But might there be life stranger than the most extreme extremophile? Might there be, somewhere, another kind of life entirely? In fact, scientists have hypothesized life that uses ammonia instead of water, life based not in carbon but in silicon, life driven by nuclear chemistry, and life whose very atoms are ... Read more
In the 1980s and 1990s, in places where no one thought it possible, scientists found organisms they called extremophiles: lovers of extremes. There were bacteria in volcanic hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor, single-celled algae in Antarctic ice floes, and fungi in the cooling pools of nuclear reactors. But might there be life stranger than the most extreme extremophile? Might there be, somewhere, another kind of life entirely? In fact, scientists have hypothesized life that uses ammonia instead of water, life based not in carbon but in silicon, life driven by nuclear chemistry, and life whose very atoms are ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
330
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393348262
SKU
V9780393348262
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About David Toomey
David Toomey is an associate professor of English and director of the Professional Writing and Technical Communication Program at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He lives in Amherst.
Reviews for Weird Life: The Search for Life That Is Very, Very Different from Our Own
A breakneck tour through natural history, encounters of an impossible kind, researchers as weird as the organisms they pursue that leads the reader to wonder where science ends and fantasy begins.
Richard Fortey - New York Times Book Review Conveys these far-out theories with precision and humor.
Jascha Hoffman - New York Times Toomey ... Read more
Richard Fortey - New York Times Book Review Conveys these far-out theories with precision and humor.
Jascha Hoffman - New York Times Toomey ... Read more