First Contact: Scientific Breakthroughs in the Hunt for Life Beyond Earth

by Marc Kaufman

Book Overview

Now in paperback, Marc Kaufman's riveting, game-changing book tells the incredible true story of science's search for the beginnings of life on Earth--and the likelihood of it existing elsewhere in our universe. For decades, researchers assumed that the genesis of life was too delicate a process, and the conditions needed to support it too fragile, for it to exist anywhere other than Earth. But recent discoveries--from microbes and creatures living...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 143910901X
• ISBN13: 9781439109014
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 9.0"