ASTRONOMY 310
            "Astrobiology and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life"
                             Prof. W. Welsh

                          Class Reader Contents
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Scientific American
October 1994 
- Carl Sagan `The Search for Extraterrestrial Life'

Martin Gardner
"Did Adam and Eve have Navels?: Discourses on Reflexology, Numerology,
Urine Therapy, and Other Dubious Subjects"
W.W. Norton & Company, New York (2000) 
ISBN 0-393-04963-9
- Chapter 17 `Claiborne Pell, Senator from Outer Space'
- Chapter 18 `Courtney Brown's Preposterous Farsight'

J. William Schopf (ed)
"Evolution! Facts and Fallacies"
Academic Press, Inc. 1998
ISBN 0126288607
- Chapter 6, by Tobias C. Owen, `Are We Alone in the Cosmos?'

Carl Sagan
"The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark"
Ballantine Books, New York (1996) 
ISBN 0-345-40946-9
- `Hallucinations'

Scientific American
September 1997
- Elizabeth Loftus `Creating False Memories'

Michael Shermer
"Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and other
Confusions of Our Times"
W.H. Freeman and Company, New York (1997)
ISBN 0-7167-3090-1
- Chapter 6 `Abducted! Encounters with Aliens'

Steven Dick
"Life on Other Worlds"
Cambridge Univ. Press 1998
ISBN 0-521-62012-0
- Chapter 5 `The UFO Controversy and the Extraterrestrial Hypothesis'

Neal J. Evans II
"Extraterrestrial Life"  4th Edition
Burgess International, Inc., Edina (1996)
- Chapter 4 `Terrestrial Evolution' (excerpt)

Scientific American
October 1994 
- Leslie E. Orgel `The Origin of Life on the Earth'

The Planetary Report
Vol 17, No 1
- Bruce Jakosky `Laying Out the Evidence: The Case for Life on Mars'

J. William Schopf (ed)
"Evolution! Facts and Fallacies"
Academic Press, Inc. 1998
ISBN 0126288607
- Chapter 5 `Breakthrough Discoveries' by J.W Schopf (excerpt)

Scientific American
October 2001
- Guillermo Gonzalez, Donald Brownlee and Peter D. Ward 
  `Refuges for Life in a Hostile Universe'

Peter D. Ward and Donald Brownlee
"Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe"
Copernicus (an imprint of Springer-Verlag), New York (2000)
ISBN 0-387-987901-0
- except (pages 279-287) `Views of Earth Though Human History'

Appendices:
- Astronomical Constants
- Periodic Table of Elements
- The Geological Timescale