Title:	Progress in the Search for Extraterrestrial Life: 1993 Bioastronomy Symposium
Volume:	74	Year:	1995	View this Volume on ADS
Editors:	Shostak, G. Seth
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Paper Title	Page	Authors
Chirality, the Cosmos, and Life	15	Bonner, W.
The Complexity Ratchet	31	Cairns-Smith, A.
Giant Planets: A Neglected Factor in Drake's Equation	41	Delsemme, A.
Brain Evolution in Dolphins, Humans and Other Mammals: Implications for ETI	53	Falk, D.
Status of the Search for Life on Mars	65	Klein, H.; Farmer, J.
SETI Begins at Home: Searching for Terrestrial Intelligence	73	Marino, L.
Is Solar System Evolution Cometary Dominated?	83	Marochnik, L.; Mukhin, L.
Cyanide Polymers in the Solar System and Beyond: Prebiotic Chemistry	95	Matthews, C.
Search for Biomolecules in SGR B2	107	Snyder, L.; Kuan, Y.-J.; Miao, Y.; Lovas, F.
The Chemical and Biological Basis of Intelligent Terrestrial Life from an Evolutionary Perspective	121	Oro, J.
The Role of Convergence in Evolution: What Extraterrestrial Life Might Look Like	135	Pfleiderer, M.; Leyhausen, P.; Pfleiderer, J.
Biodiversity and Time Scales for the Evolution of Extraterrestrial Intelligence	143	Russell, D.
Temperature and the Evolution of the Earth's Biosphere	153	Schwartzman, D.
Characteristics of Transits by Earth-Sized Planets in Binary Star Systems	165	Bell, J., III; Borucki, W.
Comparing the Expectations for Different Planetary Search Methods	173	Borucki, W.; Koch, D.
Circumstellar Habitable Zones and Mass Loss from Young Solar-Type Main Sequence Stars. I. Theory	183	Whitmire, D.; Doyle, L.; Reynolds, R.; Matese, J.
Circumstellar Habitable Zones and Mass Loss from Young Solar-Type Stars. II. Observational Considerations	195	Doyle, L.; Vikramsingh, R.; Whitmire, D.; Heather, N.
The Current State of Target Selection for NASA's High Resolution Microwave Survey	207	Henry, T.; Soderblom, D.; Baliunas, S.; Davis, R.; Donahue, R.; Latham, D.; Stefanik, R.; Torres, G.; Duquennoy, A.; Mayor, M.; Andersen, J.; Nordstrom, B.; Olsen, E.
Prospects for VLBI Detection of Planets	219	Jones, D.; Lestrade, J.-F.; Preston, R.; Phillips, R.
Planets and Black Dwarfs	231	Kumar, S.
Differential Radial Velocity Spectrometry for Detection of Earthlike Extrasolar Planets	237	Vikramsingh, R.
On the Co-Existence of Dusty Discs and Planets around Main-Sequence Stars	245	Wolstencroft, R.; Walker, H.
A Search for Alien Artifacts on the Moon	259	Arkhipov, A.
The Interstellar Contact Channel Hypothesis: When Can We Expect To Receive Beacons?	267	Blair, D.
A Mini-Spectrum Analyzer for Molecular Spectroscopy and SETI	275	Bortolotti, C.; Cattani, A.; D'Amico, N.; Grueff, G.; Maccaferi, A.; Montebugnoli, S.; Orfei, A.; Roma, M.; Tomasetti, G.; Tuccari, G.; Tugnoli, M.
Forty Trillion Signals from SERENDIP: The Berkeley SETI Program	285	Bowyer, S.; Werthimer, D.; Donnelly, C.
The Berkeley SETI Program: SERENDIP III and IV Instrumentation	293	Werthimer, D.; Ng, D.; Bowyer, S.; Donnelly, C.
The SERENDIP Interference Rejection and Signal Detection System	303	Donnelly, C.; Werthimer, D.; Bowyer, S.; Cobb, J.
Polychromatic SETI	313	Cohen, N.; Charlton, D.
Astrophysical Coding: A New Approach to SETI Signals. I. Signal Design and Wave Propagation	325	Cordes, J.; Sullivan, W., III
Astrophysical Coding: A New Approach to SETI Signals. II. Information About the Sender's Environment	337	Sullivan, W., III; Cordes, J.
Results of Two Years of SETI Observations with META II	345	Colomb, F.; Hurrell, E.; Lemarchand, G.; Olald, J.
Argus: A Future SETI Telescope	355	Dixon, R.
Optimum Signal Modulation for Interstellar Communication	369	Jones, H. W.
A Search for Dyson Spheres Around Late-Type Stars in the Solar Neighborhood	381	Jugaku, J.; Noguchi, K.; Nishimura, S.
The Columbus Optical SETI Observatory	387	Kingsley, S.
A Strategy to Detect Primitive Life on an Exo-Planet	399	Leger, A.; Mariotti, M.; Puget, J.; Rouan, D.; Schneider, J.
The SETISAIL Project	407	Maccone, C.
Review of the Planetary Society's SETI Program	419	McDonough, T.
The Search for Extraterrestrial Technologies in our Solar System	425	Papagiannis, M.
SETI Institute: Summary of Projects in Support of SETI Research	433	Pierson, T.
SETI at Wider Bandwidths?	447	Shostak, S.
HRMS: Where We've Been, and Where We're Going	457	Tarter, J.; Klein, M.
The NASA HRMS Sky Survey X-Band Observations: A Progress Report	471	Levin, S.; Olsen, E.; Backus, C.; Gulkis, S.
A Biochemical Magic Frequency Based on the Reduction Level of Biological Carbon	479	Weber, A.
Detection of Extraterrestrial Civilizations via the Spectral Signature of Advanced Interstellar Spacecraft	487	Zubrin, R.
The Consequences of a Discovery: Different Scenarios	499	Almar, I.
Will ETI Be Space Explorers? Some Cultural Considerations	507	Ashkenazi, M.
Consequences of Success in SETI: Lessons from the History of Science	521	Dick, S.
E.T., Klingons, and the Galactic Library: SETI and Science Education	535	Fraknoi, A.
SETI As a Way to Encourage Public Awareness of Science	537	Helmers, C.
Ethological Hazards of Interstellar Travel	545	Leyhausen, P.; Pfleiderer, M.; Pfleiderer, J.
SETI and Diplomacy	551	Michaud, M.
The POST Cold War ERA and its Implications for SETI	557	Schenkel, P.
Responses to Contact: Variables to Consider	567	Swift, D.
SETI in Australia: Springboards Down Under?	573	Vaile, R.
Conference Summary	583	Drake, F.

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