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  2. Julian Chela-Flores - Wikipedia

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    World Scientific Publishers, Singapore. (248 pp.). ISBN 9789812835031. ISBN 9812835032. Chela-Flores, J. (2011). The Science of Astrobiology A Personal Point of View on Learning to Read the Book of Life (Second Edition). Book series: Cellular Origin, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology, Springer: Dordrecht, The Netherlands. (334 pp.).

  3. Theory of forms - Wikipedia

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    For example, there are countless tables in the world but the Form of tableness is at the core; it is the essence of all of them. [12] Plato's Socrates held that the world of Forms is transcendent to our own world (the world of substances) and also is the essential basis of reality. Super-ordinate to matter, Forms are the most pure of all things.

  4. Snowball Earth - Wikipedia

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    A black smoker, a type of hydrothermal vent. A tremendous glaciation would curtail photosynthetic life on Earth, thus depleting atmospheric oxygen, and thereby allowing non-oxidized iron-rich rocks to form. Detractors argue that this kind of glaciation would have made life extinct entirely.

  5. The Book of Form and Emptiness - Wikipedia

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    1287597597. Dewey Decimal. 813.6. The Book of Form and Emptiness is a novel by American author Ruth Ozeki, published in 2021 by Viking. Ozeki's fourth novel, the book won the 2022 Women's Prize for Fiction. The story follows a boy who hears voices from inanimate objects while the narrative explores themes of mental illness and bereavement.

  6. Outline of life forms - Wikipedia

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    Outline of life forms. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to life forms: A life form (also spelled life-form or lifeform) is an entity that is living, [1] [2] such as plants ( flora ), animals ( fauna ), and fungi ( funga ). It is estimated that more than 99% of all species that ever existed on Earth ...

  7. Last universal common ancestor - Wikipedia

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    The last universal common ancestor ( LUCA) is the hypothesized common ancestral cell from which the three domains of life, the Bacteria, the Archaea, and the Eukarya originated. The cell had a lipid bilayer; it possessed the genetic code and ribosomes which translated from DNA or RNA to proteins.

  8. Chelae - Wikipedia

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    A chela ( / ˈkiːlə / ) – also called a claw, nipper, or pincer – is a pincer -shaped organ at the end of certain limbs of some arthropods. [1] The name comes from Ancient Greek χηλή, through Neo-Latin chela. The plural form is chelae. [2] Legs bearing a chela are called chelipeds. [3] Another name is claw because most chelae are ...

  9. World Book Encyclopedia - Wikipedia

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    The World Book Encyclopedia is an American encyclopedia. [1] World Book was first published in 1917. Since 1925, a new edition of the encyclopedia has been published annually. [1] Although published online in digital form for a number of years, World Book is currently the only American encyclopedia which also still provides a print edition. [2]