We are the martians : connecting cosmology with biology

What frightens you more? Believing you are alone in the universe or rather thinking that there s someone else out there?   Human beings have been asking themselves this question for many thousands of years while looking at the starry sky. Over the past few decades, however, we have moved from imagin...

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Autor principal: Bignami, Giovanni Fabrizio, 1944-2017, astrophysicien
Format: Livre numérique
Idioma:Anglais
Publicat: Milano : Springer Milan 2012.
Cham : Springer Nature
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Edition sous un autre format:• We are the martians, connecting cosmology with biology, Giovanni F. Bignami, 2012, Milan, Springer, 1 vol. (xxiii-128 p.), 978-88-470-2465-6
• We are the Martians, Texte imprimé, 9788847024670
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