Abstract
Douglas A. Vakoch and Matthew F. Dowd. The Drake Equation: Estimating the Prevalence of Extraterrestrial Life through the Ages
Highlights
Founded in 2006, Spontaneous Generations is an online academic journal published by graduate students at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto
Professors Vakoch of the SETI Institute and Dowd of the University of Notre Dame Press collaborated in gathering a fourteen-chapter book, which contains a foreword by Frank Drake, an introduction placing the Drake Equation in context by astrobiologist Steven J
In his wrap-up observations, Davies notes that, as of today, the first three terms of the Drake Equation refer to factors “that are known with reasonable precision [compared to 1961] ... for meaningful statistics to be developed” while the remaining four factors, “the biological ones,” have not experienced comparable “progress” and have “not been matched by a similar leap in understanding” (p. 298)
Summary
Founded in 2006, Spontaneous Generations is an online academic journal published by graduate students at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto. The Drake Equation: Estimating the Prevalence of Extraterrestrial Life through the Ages.
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