With the rapid growth of new evidence from astronomy, space science and biology that supports the theory of life as a cosmic rather than terrestrial phenomenon, this book discusses a set of crucial data and pictures showing that life is still arriving at our planet. Although it could spark controversy among the most hardened sceptics this book will have an important role in shaping future science in this area.
Contents:
- Foreword by Gensuke Tokoro
- Introduction
- Microbes and How They Gain a Living
- Historical Overview of Life's Origins
- History of Ideas About Life on Other Planets
- The Astronomy of Panspermia
- The Dawn of Modern Astrobiology
- The Clues from Comets
- The Microbiology of Panspermia
- Evidence for Fossilised Life in Meteorites
- Our Evidence for Meteoritic Microfossils
- Proving that Microbial Life of Space Origin Exists in the Stratosphere
- Evidence that Life is Continually Arriving from Space — Neopanspermia
- Strange Biological Entities in the Stratosphere — Personal Recollections of MW
- Conclusions
- Postscript
- Appendix
- Acknowledgements
- Biographies of Authors
- Further Reading
- References to Technical Literature by Subject
- Index
Readership: General readers with interest in astrobiology and science
Key Features:
- Unique images of structures of biological origin in the stratosphere
- History of ideas leading up to the present day in relation to the connection between life and the universe
- Traces the birth of the now fashionable new science of astrobiology
