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Does the discovery of the mimivirus call into question attempts to define life?

Despite biology being ‘The study of living organisms’ (Proffitt, 2017), there is no consensus between biologists on the definition of life (Bedau, 2010). Defining life has challenged and divided biologists and philosophers alike ever since Aristotle proposed the first definition. Emerging fields lik...

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Autor principal: Love, Luca Gregory
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7149470/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/biohorizons/hzy006

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