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The word life is the essence of the biological sciences and yet has no clear definition. We seem to recognize instinctively what is alive and what is not alive on earth, but we founder when contemplating how alien life on another planet could be recognized. How might we define life ? Most attempts to define it focus on the functions of living systems, that is, on the dynamic processes that life forms have and that nonliving things do not. Living things organize ...
