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No scientific subject holds more surprises for us than biology. Foremost is the sur-prise that life exists at all. How could life have started? Did one extraordinary chance occurrence in the universe assemble the first primitive living organism, and did everything else follow from that?
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Gold, T. (1999). Our Garden of Eden. In: The Deep Hot Biosphere. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1400-7_1
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