Astrobiology and Cuatro Ci?egas Basin as an Analog of Early Earth (Paperback, 2020)

Preface.- Chapter 1. What is astrobiology?.- Chapter 2. Astrobiology and Planetary Sciences in Mexico.- Chapter 3. Was LUCA a Hyperthermophilic Prokaryote? The Impact-Bottleneck Hypothesis Revisited.- Chapter 4. Stromatolites, Biosignatures, and Astrobiological Implications.- Chapter 5. The global distribution of modern microbialites: not so uncommon after all.- Chapter 6. The importance of the rare biosphere for astrobiological studies and the diversification and resilience of life on Earth.- Chapter 7. Bacterial communities from deep-hydrothermal systems: the southern Gulf of California as an example of primeval environments.- Chapter 8. Andean Microbial Ecosystems: traces in hypersaline lakes about life origin.- Chapter 9. Stromatolites in crater-lake Alchichica and Bacalar lagoon.- Chapter 10. The origin and early evolution of life on Earth: A laboratory in the School of Science.- Chapter 11. Cuatro Cienegas as an Archaean Astrobiology Park.- Index.