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Planet Earth: Cosmology, Geology, and the Evolution of Life and Environment Cesare Emiliani
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Any terrestrial life A typical M-dwarf star is so much less luminous than the Sun that an Earth-sized habitable planet with surface liquid water can only be sustained at one-tenth the Earth-Sun distance from the star. Considering the problems of adaptation The living organisms of those regions of Earth having the major “inlets”, or attractions, for cosmic influences will be taking the lead in evolving life's appropriate reactions or processes to these new conditions. Is life common in the Since all life on Earth is born of liquid water and sustained by liquid water, the absence of liquid water on Titan creates an environment that is completely inhospitable to terrestrial life. €�The emergence of the first cells on the early Earth was the culmination of a long history of prior chemical, geological and cosmic processes.”. (For more (For a history of the battle over the safety of leaded gasoline, including Kehoe's role, see this extensive 2000 article in The Nation. Oct 30, 2013 - “These self-sustaining first cells were capable of Darwinian evolution,” he contends. Lowe "We are trying to understand the forces that shaped our planet early in its evolution and the environments in which life evolved," Lowe said. But that's Thus, by measuring the lead content of rocks (or, in the case of determining the age of the Earth, in meteorites that are the same age as our planet), Patterson would ultimately manage to calculate the Earth's age. Mar 13, 2013 - The aim of our institute is to explore origin of life from the geological context. "We knew it was big, but we didn't know how big," Donald Lowe, a geologist at Stanford University and a co-author of the study, said of the asteroid. Apr 10, 2014 - Picture this: A massive asteroid almost as wide as Rhode Island and about three to five times larger than the rock thought to have wiped out the dinosaurs slams into Earth. Jan 18, 2014 - (See, Jan Zalasiewicz and Mark Williams' The Goldilocks Planet: The Four Billion Year Story of Earth's Climate (2012, p. Feb 21, 2014 - These deep physical processes, these new qualities of our physical and geological environment, will impose special adaptive challenges and requirements for all life forms on Earth. About the geological processes of Planet Earth and the universe, and about the reciprocal partnership we must forge with the land if we are to enjoy and pass forward to all generations any semblance of the environmental integrity bequeathed to us by Nature. Feb 8, 2013 - Testing Life's Cosmic Ubiquity. Aug 6, 2013 - Each of life's actions represents participation in a feedback loop whereby life serves life along the evolutionary path of Planet Earth, a lesson that began for me many years ago in a humble roadside ditch. 6 days ago - Knoll's research focuses on the early evolution of life, the environmental history of the Archean and Proterozoic eons—which ended approximately 540 million years ago—and the interconnections between the two. Dec 19, 2013 - This environmental factor poses a challenge for future human exploration of Mars and is also important in understanding both geological and potential biological evolution on Mars. Aug 29, 2013 - 1) Life on earth has endured through many intense stresses, including ice ages, warm episodes, high and low oxygen levels, mass extinctions, huge volcanic eruptions, and meteorite impacts. Apr 21, 2014 - Who knew that environmental-health insights would emerge from an inquiry in geology and physics?