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Fifty years ago, the Miller experiment took the search for the chemical origins of life to a new level with the laboratory synthesis of compounds required for life under conditions that resembled the early environment of the Earth. Since that time, scientists from around the world have built on these seminal results, developing a multi-disciplinary field that explores the fundamental questions of life’s origin and emergence from the outer reaches of the universe to the finest details of microfossils seen in an electron microscope.
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Johnson, T.V. (2004). Introduction to Life in the Universe. In: Seckbach, J., Chela-Flores, J., Owen, T., Raulin, F. (eds) Life in the Universe. Cellular Origin and Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1003-0_1
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