TY - BOOK AU - Ward,Peter Douglas AU - Brownlee,Donald TI - Rare earth: why complex life is uncommon in the universe SN - 0387987010 U1 - 574.999 PY - 2000/// CY - New York PB - Copernicus KW - Vida en otros planetas N1 - Incluye bibliografía; Why life might be widespread in the universe -- Habitable zones of the universe -- Building a habitable Earth -- Life´s first appearance on Earth -- How to build animals -- Snowball Earth -- The enigma of the Cambrian explosion -- Mass extinctions and the Rare Earth Hypothesis -- The surprising importance of plate tectonics -- The Moon, Jupiter, and life on Earth -- Testing the Rare Earth Hypotheses -- Assessing the odds -- Messengers from the stars ER -