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Second Edition

CHARLES S. COCKELL

School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, UK

This edition first published 2020

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Names: Cockell, Charles, author.

Title: Astrobiology : understanding life in the universe / Charles S. Cockell, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, UK.

Description: 2nd edition. | Hoboken : Wiley-Blackwell, 2020. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019051498 (print) | LCCN 2019051499 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119550358 (paperback) | ISBN 9781119550303 (adobe pdf) | ISBN 9781119550396 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: Exobiology–Textbooks. | LCGFT: Textbooks.

Classification: LCC QH326 .C63 2020 (print) | LCC QH326 (ebook) | DDC 576.8/39–dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019051498

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Cover Image: © JPL/Space Science Institute/NASA

This textbook has been enormous fun to write and a pleasure to update. It could not have been done without help from many people. I am grateful to colleagues for reading chapters and providing general and specific feedback on their content, readability, and style. I am particularly grateful to those whom I acknowledged in the first edition of the textbook, the edition from which this version has been built. I would also like to acknowledge the thoughtful and very helpful review comments of Ania Losiak, Rosa Santomartino, Annemiek Waajen, Stewart Gault, Rosie Cane, Peter Higgins, and Kate Haigh.

I would like to give special thanks to all the undergraduate students of the Astrobiology course at the University of Edinburgh (PHYS08051) that I have taught since 2013. It is their views, perspectives, and insights that led to the structure of this textbook when it was first written, and that have improved the content and structure in this second edition. Some subjects seem important, but turn out to be less useful as a way to teach concepts when exposed to the enquiring eyes of undergraduates. Other information seems tangential, but something about it makes it useful to get across certain ideas and knowledge. So I am immensely grateful to all the undergraduates who have patiently sat in lectures year after year and have honed my knowledge of what works and what doesn't. I would like to thank the University of Edinburgh and the School of Physics and Astronomy for the opportunity to teach astrobiology.