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Présentation. Exobiologie, aspects historiques et épistémologiques
The definition of exobiology – the study of the origins, evolution and distribution of life in the universe, as well as of related structures and processes – raises the problem of the link between current and past studies on the origins of terrestrial ...
Florence Raulin Cerceau +1 more
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The question “What is life?” has not always had the same importance, nor has it always received the same answers. It was eclipsed in the mid-twentieth century by the development of the molecular view of life.
Michel Morange
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The word origin accepts at least two meanings: that which is original, the beginning, and that which is originary, the foundation. What does it mean to give origins to life without there being a god or a plan at the foundations of these origins?
Marie-Christine Maurel
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Histoire des concepts de la vie extra-terrestre
Exobiology (or Bioastronomy or Astrobiology—with a few nuances) is a recent science in its own right, the result of the meeting of several disciplines (astronomy, biology, chemistry, geology, palaeontology), at the same time as the conquest of space was ...
Florence Raulin Cerceau
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On Earth, the transition from matter to life took place with chemical systems capable of self-reproduction and evolution. Two avenues are being explored to understand this transition: the synthesis of artificial life in a test tube and the search for a ...
André Brack
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L’exobiologie, l’imaginaire et le symbolique
This text puts forward the idea that the commentaries in natural language that necessarily accompany the experimental activities of exobiology (laboratory experiments, space missions, astronomical observations, etc.) inevitably belong to the novel.
Jean Schneider
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Les origines de la vie sur la Terre : un problème historique
The history of work on the origins of life, since the end of the debate between Louis Pasteur and Félix Pouchet in the 1860s, can be divided into two main periods: until the middle of the 20th century, most of the work consisted of the formulation of ...
Stéphane Tirard
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L’essor de l’exobiologie planétaire dans le système solaire
The development of space exploration has opened the way to new research perspectives in the field of the origins of life (on Earth or elsewhere). Detailed in situ observation of other bodies in the solar system makes it possible to compare chemical and ...
François Raulin
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Les conditions de vie extrêmes sur la planète et exobiologie
Ce chapitre répertorie les différents facteurs extrêmes et les mécanismes misent en jeu lors de la croissance des microorganismes ...
Cayol, J.L. +7 more
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