From Stardust to First Cells: The Origin and Evolution of Early Life

將來自天文學、地質學、化學和生物學的各種證據統合並交織，以更深入地探討生命的起源及其最初的演化步驟。

主張生命最有可能是在四個相互連結的階層階段中產生，這些階段的複雜性逐漸增加——宇宙、地質、化學和生物。

認為最有可能的生物合成熔爐是一個熱水泉火山口湖，生命在此開始孕育。

Sankar Chatterjee is Paul Whitfield Horn Distinguished Professor of Geosciences and Curator of Paleontology at Texas Tech University. He received his Ph.D. from Calcutta University and was a Postdoctoral fellow at the Smithsonian Institution. He taught at the University of California, Berkeley, and George Washington University before he moved to Texas Tech. His current research focuses on astrobiology and the origin of life. He is an elected fellow of the Geological Society of America and the American Association of the Advancement of Science. He led several expeditions to Antarctica, China, India, and the American Southwest in search of dinosaurs and early birds. His previous book, The Rise of Birds (Johns Hopkins University Press), has been translated into many languages.

Sankar Chatterjee 是德州科技大學地球科學的保羅·惠特菲爾德·霍恩傑出教授及古生物學策展人。他在加爾各答大學獲得博士學位，並曾在史密森學會擔任博士後研究員。他曾在加州大學伯克利分校和喬治華盛頓大學任教，之後轉至德州科技大學。他目前的研究重點是天體生物學和生命的起源。他是美國地質學會和美國科學促進會的當選會員。他曾領導多次前往南極洲、中國、印度和美國西南部的探險，尋找恐龍和早期鳥類。他的前一本書《鳥類的崛起》（約翰霍普金斯大學出版社）已被翻譯成多種語言。