Overview: This book collects together a selection of the best paperspresented at the Third International Bioastronomy Symposiumheld in 1990. The subject is bioastronomy, the search forlife in the universe, andthe book is devided according tothe five main stages of life as recognized by this newbranch of science: cosmic organic, prebiotic, primitivebiological, and advanced. Thereader will find here the mostrecent results obtained bytop specialists from all over theworld on hot topics such as the formation and discovery ofplanets, organic chemistry in meteorites and comets,prebiotic chemistry in
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