In his entertaining and thought provoking The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy, the Cambridge University zoologist and mathematical biologist Arik Kershenbaum— known principally for his studies of animal vocalizations—turns to astrobiology, a field concerned with the origins and persistence of life in the Universe, and provides readers with a tentative sketch of the nature of potential alien life on other potentially habitable planets.

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在其他世界上的进化

剑桥大学的动物学家和数学生物学家阿里克·克森鲍姆（Arik Kershenbaum）以其对动物发声的研究而闻名，他在娱乐性和发人深省的《银河系动物学指南》中转向天体生物学，这是一个关注宇宙生命起源和持久性的领域，并向读者提供其他潜在宜居星球上潜在外星生命的性质的初步草图。