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PAPERBACK list:$16.00 Web:$14.40 add to cart Rights & Permissions Free PDF Access Free Resources Sign in to download PDF book and chapters PDF EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Display this book on your site! Related Titles Exploring Organic Environments in the Solar System Space Studies Board Annual Report 2003 Other Related Titles The Search for Life's Origins: Progress and Future Directions in Planetary Biology and Chemical Evolution (1990) Space Studies Board (SSB) Web Search Builder Use this book's key terms to search within this book, across our collection, or across the Web. Skim This Chapter Skim this chapter and use this chapter's key terms to search within this book. Reference Finder Paste in your own text to find books that relate to your topic. Page 139   E-mail  Facebook  Digg  Stumble  Twitter More Page 139 Front Matter (R1-R12) Executive Summary (1-15) 1. Overview (16-20) 2. The Cosmic History of the Biogenic Elements and Compounds (21-55) 3. Early Planetary Environments: Implications for Chemical Evolution and the Origin of Life (56-77) 4. The Origin of Life (78-90) 5. The Evolution of Cellular and Multicellular Life (91-104) 6. Search for Life Outside the Solar System (105-122) 7. Major Research Recommendations (123-129) 8. Space Science Program and Policy Issues (130-132) References (133-134) Glossary (135-138) Appendix (139-140) Index (141-148)

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Appendix COMMISSION ON PHYSICAL SCIENCES, MATHEMATICS, AND RESOURCES List of Members NORMAN HACKERMAN, Robert A. Welch Foundation, Chairman ROBERT C. BEARDSLEY, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution B. CLARK BURCHFIEL, Massachusetts Institute of Technology GEORGE F. CARRIER, Harvard University RALPH J. CICERONE, University of California at Irvine HERBERT D. DOAN, The Dow Chemical Company (retired) PETER S. EAGLESON, Massachusetts Institute of Technology DEAN E. EASTMAN, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center MARYE ANNE FOX, University of Texas GERHART FRIEDLANDER, Brookhaven National Laboratory LAWRENCE W. FUNKHOUSER, Chevron Corporation (retired) PHILLIP A. GRIFFITHS, Duke University NEAL F. LANE, Rice University CHRISTOPHER F. MCKEE, University of California at Berkeley RICHARD S. NICHOLSON, American Association for the Advancement of Science JACK E. OLIVER, Cornell University JEREMIAH P. OSTRIKER, Princeton University Observatory PHILIP A. PALMER, E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company FRANK L. PARKER, Vanderbilt University DENIS J. PRAGER, MacArthur Foundation DAVID M. RAUP, University of Chicago ROY F. SCHWITTERS, Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory LARRY L. SMARR, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign KARL K. TUREKIAN, Yale University 139

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