Concepts for detection of extraterrestrial life/Suggested Reading

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Suggested Reading: Background and Introductory Information

• Calvin, M.: Communications: From Molecules to Mars. AIBS Bulletin, 12: 29, 1962.
• Darwin, C.: On the Origin of Species (a facsimile of the first edition). Harvard University Press, 1963. Many other editions exist.
• Horowitz, N. H.: Biology in Space. Fed. Proc., 21: 687, 1962.
• Horowitz, N .H.: The Design of Martian Biological Experiments. Life Sciences and Space Research II, M. Florkin, ed., North Holland Publishing Company (Amsterdam), 1964.
• Horowitz, N. H. and Miller, S. L.: Current Theories on the Origin of Life. Fortschritte der Chemie organischer Naturstoffe, 20: 423, 1962.
• Lederberg, J.: Exobiology Approaches to Life Beyond Earth. Science, 132: 393, 1960.
• Lwoff, A.: Biological Order. MIT Press, 1962.
• Mamikunian, G. and Briggs, M. H., eds.: Current Aspects of Exobiology. Pergamon Press, 1965.
• Merrill, P. W.: Space Chemistry. University of Michigan Press, 1963.
• Miller, S.: The Mechanism of Synthesis of Amino Acids by Electric Discharges. Biochemica and Biophysica Acta, 23: 480, 1957.
• National Academy of Science—National Research Council: A Review of Space Research. Publication 1079, Chapter IX, 1962.
• Quimby, F. H.: Some Criteria of Living Systems Useful in the Search for Extraterrestrial Life. Developments in Industrial Microbiol., 5: 224, 1964.
• Thomas, S.: Men of Space—Profiles of Scientists Who Probe for Life in Space. Vol. 6, Chilton Publishing Company, 1963.
• Vishniac, W.: Terrestrial Models for Extraterrestrial Organisms. Life Sciences and Space Research II, M. Florkin, ed., North Holland Publishing Company (Amsterdam), 1964.
• Weisz, P. B.: The Science of Biology. McGraw-Hill, 1949.
• Young, R. S. and Ponnamperuma, C.; Early Evolution of Life. Biological Sciences Curriculum Study No. 11, W. Auffenberg, ed., D.C. Heath and Company, Boston, 1964.