books.google.co.uk - Throughout the twentieth century, from the furor over Percival Lowell's claim of canals on Mars to the sophisticated Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, otherworldly life has often intrigued and occasionally consumed science and the public. The Biological Universe provides a rich and colorful history...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Biological_Universe.html?id=xd2-nYXa-HUC&q=origin&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Biological Universe