Life as We Know It

By: Joseph Seckbach

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Hardcover | 18 September 2006

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Life As we Know It ["LAKI"] covers several aspects of Life, ranging from the prebiotic level, origin of life, evolution of prokaryotes to eukaryotes and finally to various affairs of human beings. Although it is hard to define Life, one can, however, characterize it and describe its features. Topics treated are categories of bacteria, algae and fungi, conscience, philosophy, theology, aesthetics, appearance of sport and life destiny, life after clinical death, and thoughts of the world to come ("Olam Haba").

The various chapters have been written so that they are accessible to all - from the avid lay reader to the specialist - and make available multidisciplinary sources of information about Life. This volume will interest open minded scholars, students at all levels of general sciences, natural and Life science, researchers of philosophy, theology, history of Life, astrobiology, and those who wish to widen their knowledge about "who are we in the universe".

The information presented here on the various phenomena of Life were all written by highly qualified authors including scientists, public leaders, a professional athelete and three Nobel Laureates.

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The extremophiles : diversity of life environments	p. 3
Prokaryotic life	p. 21
The algae - diverse life forms and global importance	p. 37
Fungal lives	p. 53
Life in saline and hypersaline environments	p. 75
Thermophilic communities as autonomous ecosystems	p. 89
Life in ice	p. 107
Life under pressure : deep-sea microbial ecology	p. 125
Early precursors of life in the solar nebula	p. 147
Is life on earth accidental? : natural selection and the second law of thermodynamics	p. 163
From the minimal genome to the minimal cell : theoretical and experimental investigations	p. 179
Numerical analysis of biocomplexity	p. 199
Hepatitis B virus conjectures on human interactions and origin of life	p. 213
The record of early life : in search of biosignatures	p. 237
Ground truth : the epistemology of searching for the earliest life on earth	p. 259
Eukaryogenesis : the origin of the eukaryotes	p. 287
Symbiotic : forms of life	p. 307
Symbiosis : the way of all life	p. 325
Can there be a limit on the complexity of life?	p. 341
Evolution of intelligence	p. 359
Searching other worlds for life as we know it	p. 373
The role of comets and meteorites in the origin of life	p. 383
Astronomical constraints for life on terrestrial planets	p. 399
Prerequisites for the evolution of life on exoplanets	p. 413
Life as an unfolding biocosmos	p. 431
We have not detected extraterrestrial life, or have we?	p. 445
The search for extraterrestrial intelligence	p. 459
Search for extraterrestrial intelligence	p. 473
An alternative method for the scientific search for extraterrestrial intelligent life : the "local SETI"	p. 487
Destinies of the universe and life : the final frontiers of cosmology and astrobiology	p. 505
Destiny of life and religious attitudes	p. 519
Life in the universe : philosophical and theological issues	p. 539
Consciousness	p. 553
Afterlife in Moshe Maimondes's thought	p. 565
Science and religion : some suggestions for conceptual harmonizing constraints	p. 577
Understanding the nature of life : a matter of definition or theory?	p. 589
"And you shall choose life"	p. 601
When form outlasts its medium : a definition of life integrating platonism and thermodynamics	p. 607
Epistemological pluralism : realities as species-specific interpretations of the material world	p. 621
Temperature gradients as a major impetus : driving prebiotic evolution	p. 641
Life during clinical death : the "near death experience" phenomenon	p. 655
Beauty in nature	p. 663
All things bright and beautiful : the hidden cosmos of microscopic planktonic algae	p. 685
Life and sports : musings of a pro athlete	p. 701
Artificial life : from life-as-we-know-it to life-as it-could be	p. 707
Life-cycles of life	p. 719
What do we call life? : a brief outlook on life	p. 737
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