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Initial stages of biosphere evolution

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The origin of life belongs to urgent worldview problems; it has been in the limelight since time immemorial, pressing for an answer all through the evolution of knowledge and getting a different interpretation at each stage largely under the prevailing worldview. In recent years, Russian scientists tried to summarize up-to-date information concerning primarily the life origin problem in three collective monographs: Biosphere Origin and Evolution (2008), Biosphere Origin and Evolution Problems (2008), and Life Origin Problems (2009). These monographs served as the subject matter for a critical analysis in the article below of the most general ideas about the early evolution of geospheric and biological systems.

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Original Russian Text © G.A. Zavarzin, 2010, published in Vestnik Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, 2010, Vol. 80, No. 12, pp. 1085–1098.

Academician Georgii Aleksandrovich Zavarzin is head of a laboratory at the Vinogradskii Institute of Microbiology, RAS.

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Zavarzin, G.A. Initial stages of biosphere evolution. Her. Russ. Acad. Sci. 80, 522–533 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1019331610060080

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