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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })What Does a Martian Look Like?: The Science of Extraterrestrial Life (also published as Evolving the Alien: The Science of Extraterrestrial Life) is a 2002 book by biologist Jack Cohen and mathematician Ian Stewart about what life on Earth, in its surprising variety, allows us to guess about what alien life could (and could not) be like. However, it also takes a science fiction author's point of view for imagining the alien, and discusses a lot of the traditional tropes associated with aliens in fiction as well as suggesting more realistic alternatives.
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Bizarre Alien Biology: Not only is it pointed out that any real alien biology we might find is going to be pretty unfamiliar, even though it may manifest some familiar universals; it's also pointed out that life on Earth already contains more oddities than some scientists (in the "astrobiologist" camp, as opposed to the "xenoscience" this book identifies with) are willing to allow for alien life.
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Artistic License – Biology: Naturally, this gets called out a lot. For example, how did the xenomorphs evolve to be parasites to humans?
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Starfish Aliens: It's not even a question whether aliens are going to be weird. The main question is how weird they can be.
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