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Life on the Edge: Amazing Creatures Thriving in Extreme Environments
by Michael Gross
Binding: Paperback, 1 edition, 216 pages
Publisher: Basic Books
List Price: USD $15.00
Weight: 77
Dimension: H: 0.47 x L: 9.2 x W: 5.98 inches
ISBN 10: 0738204455
ISBN 13: 9780738204451
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A new and revealing examination of life on Earth from the perspective of its hardiest inhabitants. Can life exist in the Antarctic ice, in the deep subsurface, in dilute sulfuric acid, in hot springs even on Mars? What degree of high or low temperature, pressure, or salt concentration can living cells tolerate? In recent years, scientists have discovered many single cell creatures that exist in in fact, are perfectly adapted to extreme environments that were considered uninhabitable just one or two decades ago. In Life on the Edge, author Michael Gross explores how microorganisms adapt to their hostile environments and how they affect our current definition of the 'normal' conditions for life. He also describes the vast implications of these extremophiles and other amazing creatures from potential breakthroughs in medicine and biotechnology to the search for life elsewhere in the universe.

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