Life as We Know It

Part 1. Life as we know it

1. Biodiversity and Extremophiles
Joseph Seckbach, Aharon Oren, Russell L. Chapman, Debra A. Waters, Ian K. Ross, Aharon Oren, Elizaveta Bonch-Osmolovskaya, Nina Gunde-Cimerman, Christian Tamburini

Part 2. Life in the context of the new science of astrobiology

2. The Origin of Life on Earth and in the Universe
Jordi Llorca, Malcolm E. Schrader, Pasquale Stano, Francesca Ferri, Pier Luigi Luisi

3. The Evolution of Life on Earth and in the Universe
David Deamer, John Evans, Baruch S. Blumberg, A. M. Carnerup, A. G. Christy, J. M. García–ruiz, S. T. Hyde, A.-K. Larsson, Eben C. Rose, Nicola Mcloughlin, Martin D. Brasier, P. J. L. Bell, John J. Lee, Mary Beth Saffo, K. Tahir Shah, Claudio Maccone

4. The Distribution of Life in the Universe
Christopher P. Mckay, Josep M. Trigo–rodríguez, P. Ehrenfreund, E. L. Martin, Helmut Lammer, Thomas Penz, Natalia K. Belisheva, Yuri N. Kulikov, Helfried K. Biernat, J. Svoboda, Charles H. Lineweaver, Seth Shostak, J. Krupi?ka, Massimo Teodorani

5. The Destiny of Life in the Universe
Julian Chela-Flores, George V. Coyne

Part 3. Deeper issues of the phenomenon of life

6. Philosophical and Theological Aspects of Life
Robert John Russell, R. J. Aumann, Rav Giuseppe Laras, Carol E. Cleland, Shlomo Riskin, Avshalom C. Elitzur, K. Tahir Shah, Koichiro Matsuno

7. Human Life as a Social Phenomenon
Natan Gadoth, Nina Gunde-Cimerman, Polona Zalar, Gordon W. Beakes, Lawrence Funderburke

8. Artificial Life
Moshe Sipper, Nakdimon Umiel

Part 4. Summary and conclusions

9. What do we call life? A Brief Outlook on Life
Joseph Seckbach, Francois Raulin, Aharon Oren, Vera Kolb, Julian Chela-Flores

Nyckelord: Life Sciences, Life Sciences, general, Cell Biology, Developmental Biology, Biodiversity, Microbiology, Aesthetics