From Panspermia to Bioastronomy, the Evolution of the Hypothesis of Universal Life
@article{RaulinCerceau2004FromPT, title={From Panspermia to Bioastronomy, the Evolution of the Hypothesis of Universal Life}, author={F. Raulin-Cerceau and M. Maurel and J. Schneider}, journal={Origins of life and evolution of the biosphere}, year={2004}, volume={28}, pages={597-612} }
During the 19th and early 20th centuries, ideas related to the possible origin in space of bioorganic molecules, or seeds, or even germs and organisms (and how they reached the Earth) included the Panspermia theory. Based on the idea of the eternity of life proposed by eminent physicists – such as Arrhenius and Kelvin – ‘Panspermia’ is mainly divided into two branches: lithopanspermia (transport of germs inside stones traveling in space) and radiopanspermia (transport of spores by radiative… CONTINUE READING
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