It has been argued that the historical nature of evolution makes it a highly path-dependent process. Under this view, the outcome of evolutionary dynamics could have resulted in organisms with […]
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RED25: An Astrobiology Introductory Course
RED is a Training School about the “Basics in Astrobiology”. Astrobiology addresses questions related to the origins of life, its evolution, and distribution in the Universe. This school aims to […]
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openVertebrate Project: Open Access CT Scans To Thousands Of Natural History Specimens
Editor’s note: When we begin to study the variety iof life forms on other worlds we’ll need to have a way to catalog what we have discovered, make an image […]
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Life, Its Definition, Origin, Evolution, and Four-dimensional Hierarchical Structure, Biosystems
The main unique features of biological systems are reviewed, and four necessary and sufficient attributes of life are formulated, based on the ideas of Ervin Bauer.
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Astrobiology, Bioastronautics, And Space Bioprocess Engineering: Domains Of Life Sciences In Spacefaring: What, Where, And How To Get Involved
The integration of biology and spacefaring has led to the development of three interrelated fields: Astrobiology, Bioastronautics, and Space Bioprocess Engineering.
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Autocatalytic Reactions And The Search For Life
NASA-supported researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have written a “cookbook” of chemical recipes that could aid in the search for life beyond Earth.
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Four billion-year-old chemistry in cells today
Parts of the primordial soup in which life arose have been maintained in our cells today according to scientists at the University of East Anglia. Research published today in the […]