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Astrobiology: Origins from the Big-Bang to Civilisation Proceedings of the Iberoamerican School of Astrobiology Caracas, Venezuela, 28 November– 8 December, 1999

Astrobiology: Origins from the Big-Bang to Civilisation Proceedings of the Iberoamerican School of Astrobiology Caracas, Venezuela, 28 November– 8 December, 1999


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The proposal of the School was made in 1998 to three institutions, which responded enthusiastically: The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), its main co-sponsor, the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, both in Trieste, Italy, and the Chancellor's Office, Universidad Simon Bolfvar (USB). The secretarial and logistic support was provided in Trieste by the ICTP and in Caracas by USB and the IDEA Convention Center. In addition the event was generously supported by the following institutes, agencies, foundations and academies: NASA Headquarters, European Space Agency, TALVEN Programme, (Delegacion Permanente de Venezuela ante la UNESCO), The SETI Institute, Centro Latinoamericano .de Ffsica, The Third World Academy of Sciences, Academia de Ciencias Ffsicas, Matematicas y Naturales, Red Latinoamericana de Biologfa, The Planetary Society, The Latin American Academy of Sciences (Fondo ACAL), Alberto Vollmer Foundation, Inc, Fundacion J. Oro, Associated to the Catalonian Research Foundation, Red Latinoamericana de Astronomfa and Colegio Emil Friedman. A total of 36 lectures were delivered by 20 lecturers, of which 14 were from the following countries: Argentina, Mexico, Italy, Spain and the USA. Six lecturers were from the host country. In addition there were 5 chairpersons from the host country that were not participants; two participants acted as chairpersons (Pedro Benitez and Tomas Revilla).

Table of Contents:
Origins: From the Big-Bang to Civilisation.- Detectability of intelligent life in the universe: A search based in our knowledge of the laws of nature.- Cosmos and cosmology.- New developments in astronomy relevant to astrobiology.- Cosmochemical evolution and the origin of life on Earth.- Chemical evolution in the early Earth.- Nitrogen fixation in planetary environments: A comparison between mildly reducing and neutral atmospheres.- Darwinian dynamics and biogenesis.- Evolution of adaptive systems.- Contemporary controversies within the framework of the revolutionary theory.- Molecular Biology and the reconstruction of microbial phylogenies: des liaisons dangereuses?.- Astrobiology and the ESA Science Programme.- The chemical composition of comets.- Information, life and brains.- The origin of the neuron: The first neuron in the phylogenetic tree of life.- Origin of Synapses: A scientific account or the story of a hypothesis.- Origins of language: The evolution of human speech.- Astrophysics and Meta-Technics.- Deeper Questions: The search for darwinian evolution in our solar system.- Report on the round-table “Music of the spheres”.- Ultimate paradoxes of time travel.- Do wormholes exist?.- Heterogeneous radiolysis of succinic acid in the presence of sodium-montmorillonite. Implications to prebiotic chemistry.- Condensed matter surfaces in prebiotic chemistry.- Irradiation of adenine adsorbed in Na-Montmorillonite. Implications to chemical evolution studies.- Accumulation of alkanes ? n-C18 on the early Earth.- Advantages of the alkanes ? n-C18 as protectors for the synthesis and survival of critical biomolecules in the early Earth.- Evidence a of a nitrogen deficiency as a selective pressure towards the origin of biological nitrogen fixation in the earlyEarth.- RNA-binding peptides as early molecular fossils.- On the role of genome duplications in the evolution of prokaryotic chromosomes.- Experimental simulation of volcanic lightning on early Mars.- Tropical Alpine environments: A plausible analog for ancient and future life on Mars.- Planetary habitable zones on Earth and Mars biophysical limits of life in planetry environments.- Quantitative study of the effects of various energy sources on a Titan’s simulated atmosphere.- Life extinctions and gravitational collapse of ONeMg electron-degenerate objects.- Nameindex.- Participants.


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  • ISBN-13: 9780792365877
  • Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
  • Publisher Imprint: Kluwer Academic Publishers
  • Height: 244 mm
  • No of Pages: 336
  • Returnable: Y
  • Width: 170 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0792365879
  • Publisher Date: 30 Sep 2000
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Origins from the Big-Bang to Civilisation Proceedings of the Iberoamerican School of Astrobiology Caracas, Venezuela, 28 November– 8 December, 1999


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