Introduction: Conditions for the emergence of life on the early Earth

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 361, Issue 1474, 2006, Pages 1675-1679

  Leach, Sydney ^a   Smith, Ian W M ^b   Cockell, Charles S ^c  

^a OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARLY EARTH; EMERGENCE; ORIGIN OF LIFE;

ASTRONOMY; BIOGENESIS; BIOLOGY; CONFERENCE PAPER;

BIOGENESIS; EARTH (PLANET); EVOLUTION, CHEMICAL; EXOBIOLOGY;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 33750048782     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2006.1895     Document Type: Conference Paper

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