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Now that we’ve talked about the source of solar systems, the nature of life, the relevance of chemistry, and the importance of energy, we need to think about how life can arise in an otherwise non-living world, then give rise to the interdependent web of organisms that constitute ecosystems. And we need to do so in a fairly general way, so our assumptions can apply throughout the great range of habitats that are likely to be host to living organisms, wherever they are found in the universe.
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Irwin, L.N., Schulze-Makuch, D. (2011). Life’s Fundamentals. In: Cosmic Biology. Springer Praxis Books(). Praxis, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1647-1_3
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