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#1 Amazon New Release! - Is life on earth from space? Fans of Your Inner Fish, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, and A Brief History of Time will love A Brief History of Life. The vital questions of evolution: We have always searched the Heavens for answers about our origins and our destiny. Technological advances have led to discoveries that toppled accepted theories about the nature of life and the structure of the Universe. The most recent findings are likely to do the same and we appear to be on the on the cusp of a revolution. What is life? Who are we? Where did we come from? These are mysteries that new evidence in space exploration is poised to uncover. Discoveries in evolutionary psychology, developmental biology, and paleontology: Our knowledge of life on Earth and in the Universe is fast expanding. New and exciting facts are emerging all the time. Yet what these isolated findings represent and how they may fit together within a bigger picture can be difficult to see at times. The octopus is from space and other theories: A Brief History of Life will attempt to piece together the most current known facts in the search for life in the universe. Theories that relate to these findings will be examined and the implications of discoveries that remain at this time inexplicable will be looked at. Readers will be left to decide if the Earth is a self-contained island in the sea of life in Space or whether we have constantly been involved in an exchange of biological material that has shaped both us and the cosmos.

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Kamala Wickramasinghe is a freelance editor and writer and has worked for various publishing companies. She holds a BA Hons degree and an MA in English Literature from the University of Cambridge. Her long-standing interest in science has led her to work and write with her father. She has edited a number of his books in the last 20 years including Journey with Fred Hoyle (World Scientific 2005, 2011 (reprint)); Life on Mars? (Clinical Press, 1997); Cosmic Dragons (Souvenir Press, 2003); Where did come from?: Life of an Astrobiologist (World Scientific, 2015). Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe is a world-renowned astronomer, astrophysicist and astrobiologist. In 1974 he first proposed the theory that dust in interstellar space and in comets is largely organic, a theory that has now been fully vindicated. He was a student of the late Sir Fred Hoyle and one of his longest running collaborators. In 1977, together with Hoyle, he proposed the theory of cometary panspermia, the theory that comets carry the seeds of life in the universe. He is the author of over 30 books and 350 scientific papers. He obtained his early education in Sri Lanka graduating in Mathematics from the University of Ceylon in 1960. He then proceeded to Cambridge University on a Commonwealth Scholarship obtaining his PhD and ScD degrees from Cambridge in 1963 and 1971. From 1963-1973 he was a Fellow of Jesus College Cambridge and a Founder Member of the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge. From 1973-2010 he was a Professor at Cardiff University. He was awarded honorary doctorates from the Soka University of Tokyo, Japan, and the Ruhuna University of Sri Lanka. In 1992 he was decorated by the President of Sri Lanka with the titular honour of Vidya Jyothi. Edward J Steele is a researcher working on genetic diversification mechanisms within molecular immunology, molecular biology and evolution. He began collaborating with Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe in 2016.

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