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Biological Foundations of Life

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It is possible to simulate, in the laboratory, conditions that may have existed on the prebiotic Earth producing a range of prebiotic compounds. A fundamental question is now to know all kinds of primeval or simple lifes possible and hence what kind of signature of life it is possible to expect on another planets or systems. Entities like-cells might exist (or may have existed) without pedigrees or genealogical history but with a physical history. We have to search all kind of architecture of life in and out the conventional lineages.

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Maurel, MC. (1999). Biological Foundations of Life. In: Mariotti, JM., Alloin, D. (eds) Planets Outside the Solar System: Theory and Observations. NATO Science Series, vol 532. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4623-4_22

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