Wharton David A

Life at the Limits: organisms in extreme environments - Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2002 - xi, 307

Includes bibliographical references and index

Preface
1 Introduction: extreme life
2 Be it ever so humble …
3 Life without water
4 The hot club
5 Cold Lazarus
6 More tough choices
7 ‘It's life, Jim, but not as we know it!’
8 An extreme biology
Bibliography
Glossary
Index

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Extreme Environments
Biology

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