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The road taken by the physics of the smallest building blocks of matter since the mid-seventies has led from nuclear particles, the building blocks of the atomic nucleus, to quarks, the building blocks of nuclear particles. In this chapter, as we consider these developments, we will use the anthropic principle to deduce some of the properties of matter at this most fundamental level that are necessary for the existence of life as we know it.

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Breuer, R. (1991). Fundamental Particles With Charm. In: The Anthropic Principle. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6741-1_3

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