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Part IV - Discovering Life
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 September 2020
Summary
Carbon-based life is the most probable, and hence the most common, form of life in the Milky Way, and indeed in the universe. However, it may not be the only form of life. We should keep an open mind on this; the King Carbon hypothesis should not give way to carbon chauvinism.
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- The Biological UniverseLife in the Milky Way and Beyond, pp. 203 - 282Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020