The Galactic Habitable Zone and the Age Distribution of Complex Life in the Milky Way

Science

Volumn 303, Issue 5654, 2004, Pages 59-62

  Lineweaver, Charles H ^a,b   Fenner, Yeshe ^c   Gibson, Brad K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GALAXIES; PLANETS; SUN;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION;

SPACE RESEARCH;

EVOLUTION; SOLAR SYSTEM;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; COMPLEX LIFE; COSMOS; EVOLUTION; GALACTIC HABITABLE ZONE; LIFE; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPACE; TIME;

ASTRONOMY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION, CHEMICAL; EVOLUTION, PLANETARY; EXOBIOLOGY; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PROBABILITY; TIME;

EID: 0347988238     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1092322     Document Type: Article

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