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Preface; Part I. Planetary Systems and the Origins of Life: 1.Observations of extrasolar planetary systems Shay Zucker; 2. The atmospheresof extrasolar planets L. Jeremy Richardson and Sara Seager; 3. Terrestrialplanet formation Edward Thommes; 4. Protoplanetary disks, amino acids and thegenetic code Paul Higgs and Ralph Pudritz; 5. Emergent phenomena in biology:the origin of cellular life David Deamer; Part II. Life on Earth: 6.Extremophiles: defining the envelope for the search for life in the UniverseLynn Rothschild; 7. Hyperthermophilic life on Earth - and on Mars? KarlStetter; 8. Phylogenomics: how far back in the past can we go? HennerBrinkmann, Denis Baurain and Herve Philippe; 9. Horizontal gene transfer,gene histories and the root of the tree of life Olga Zhaxybayeva and J. PeterGogarten; 10. Evolutionary innovation versus ecological incumbency AdolfSeilacher; 11. Gradual origins for the Metazoans Alexandra Pontefract andJonathan Stone; Part III. Life in the Solar System?: 12. The search for lifeon Mars Chris McKay; 13. Life in the dark dune spots of Mars: a testablehypothesis Eors Szathmary, Tibor Ganti, Tamas Pocs, Andras Horvath, AkosKereszturi, Szaniszlo Berzci and Andras Sik; 14. Titan: a new astrobiologicalvision from the Cassini-Huygens data Francois Raulin; 15. Europa, the OceanMoon: tides, permeable ice, and life Richard Greenberg; Index.