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Urey Prize Lecture - Planetary evolution and the origin of lifeOne of the principal questions concerning planetary evolution and life's origins relates to the early-earth organic material's origination in situ, outer solar system importation, or simple irrelevance to the emergence of organisms. Additional considerations encompass the character of interstellar organic material and its relationship to outer solar system organic compounds, and the possibility of life's emergence in the early Mars. Attention is given to the essentiality of liquid water for life-forms, in the role not only of a reaction medium among molecules but that of a basis for hydrophylic and hydrophobic groups' bonding.
Document ID
19910052744
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
Mckay, Christopher P.
(NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA, United States)
Date Acquired
August 15, 2013
Publication Date
May 1, 1991
Publication Information
Publication: Icarus
Volume: 91
ISSN: 0019-1035
Subject Category
Space Biology
Accession Number
91A37367
Distribution Limits
Public
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