Does ‘life’ have a definition?

Planets and Life: The Emerging Science of Astrobiology

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 119-131

  Cleland, Carol E ^a   Chyba, Christopher F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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