The Search for Our Cosmic Ancestry

by Chandra Wickramasinghe

Book Overview

The idea that life is a cosmic, rather than a purely terrestrial phenomenon, has progressed from scientific heresy to mainstream science within the short timespan of a few decades. The theory of cometary panspermia developed by Fred Hoyle and the present author in the 1970's has been vindicated by a spate of new discoveries in astronomy and biology, and also with startling new evidence of microbial fossils in meteorites and micrometeorites. The recent...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9814616974
• ISBN13: 9789814616973
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"