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Science 7 January 2005:
Vol. 307. no. 5706, p. 46
DOI: 10.1126/science.1106678

Books

ASTRONOMY:
A Field with a Life of Its Own

A review by Jeffrey L. Bada


The Living Universe NASA and the Development of Astrobiology
by Steven J. Dick and James E. Strick
Rutgers University Press, Piscataway, NJ, 2004. 288 pp. $49.95. ISBN 0-8135-3447-X.

Building on a review of the primary literature and oral history interviews, the authors chart the birth of exobiology and its subsequent transformation into the discipline of astrobiology.
The reviewer is at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0212, USA. E-mail: jbada{at}ucsd.edu

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