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The science of biology rests upon the fact that we perceive the sharpest possible distinction between organisms and inanimate systems. Perhaps the basic task of biology is to isolate and characterize the nature of this distinction; to determine why certain systems are living and others are not.
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Rosen, R. (1984). Relational Biology and the Origin of Life. In: Matsuno, K., Dose, K., Harada, K., Rohlfing, D.L. (eds) Molecular Evolution and Protobiology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4640-1_31
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