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Weird Life

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Description for Weird Life Hardcover. Prepare to discover life unlike any we've seen before. Num Pages: 288 pages, 10 illustrations. BIC Classification: PDZ; PS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 147 x 25. Weight in Grams: 402.
In the 1980s and 1990s, in places where no one thought it possible, scientists found organisms they called extremophiles: lovers of extremes. There were bacteria in volcanic hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor, single-celled algae in Antarctic ice floes, and fungi in the cooling pools of nuclear reactors.

But might there be life stranger than the most extreme extremophile? Might there be, somewhere, another kind of life entirely? In fact, scientists have hypothesized life that uses ammonia instead of water, life based not in carbon but in silicon, life driven by nuclear chemistry, and life whose very atoms are unlike ... Read more

Distilling complex science in clear and lively prose, David Toomey illuminates the research of the biological avant-garde and describes the workings of weird organisms in riveting detail. His chapters feature an unforgettable cast of brilliant scientists and cover everything from problems with our definitions of life to the possibility of intelligent weird life. With wit and understanding that will delight scientists and lay readers alike, Toomey reveals how our current knowledge of life forms may account for only a tiny fraction of what’s really out there.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393071580
SKU
V9780393071580
Shipping Time
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About David Toomey
David Toomey is a professor of English and director of the Professional Writing and Technical Communication Program at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He lives in Amherst.

Reviews for Weird Life
"An ingenious overview of anything that might be alive. The author remains true to science while coming to delightfully bizarre conclusions."
Kirkus Reviews "Weird life, Toomey teaches us in his mind-bending book, is not just weirder than anything we can imagine, it is the weirdest thing we have ever imagined."
Justin Nobel, author of Orion

Goodreads reviews for Weird Life


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