First comprehensive beginning graduate level book on the emergent science of astrobiology.
Based on material delivered at several summer schools this book is the first comprehensive
textbook at the graduate level encompassing all aspects associated with the emerging field of
astrobiology.Volume II gathers another set of extensive lectures covering topics so diverse as
the formation and the distribution of elements in the Universe the concept of habitability
from both the planetologists' and the biologists' point of view and artificial life. The
contributions are held together by the common goal to understand better the origin of life its
evolution and possible existence outside the Earth's realm.
