TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wickramasinghe, Chandra
TI  - Search for our cosmic ancestry
SN  - 9789814616973
U1  - 576.839 WIC-C 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - London
PB  - World Scientific
KW  - Extraterrestrial beings
KW  - Exobiology
KW  - Life on other planets
N1  - The idea that life is a cosmic, rather than a purely terrestrial phenomenon, has progressed from scientific heresy to mainstream science within the short timespan of a few decades. The theory of cometary panspermia developed by Fred Hoyle and the present author in the 1970's has been vindicated by a spate of new discoveries in astronomy and biology, and also with startling new evidence of microbial fossils in meteorites and micrometeorites. The recent Kepler Telescope searches for exoplanets have indicated the presence of over 100 billion habitable planets separated by only a few light years
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