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The Limits of Life

1998
The field of stability of life extends beyond the limits of the biosphere, and the independent variables which determine the stability (temperature, chemical composition, etc.) attain values well beyond the characteristic biospheric extremes of these quantities.
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Upper Temperature Limit of Life

Science, 1963
Samples of microorganisms from the hot springs of Yellowstone National Park have been collected and tested for the ability to utilize radioactive phosphorus. No evidence for growth was found above 73°C.
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Life at the Limit

Theory & Event, 2013
The paper explores the potentiality of life’s excess in situations such as detention at Guantánamo Bay and how these challenging and oppressive situations can constitute a different relationship between life and sovereign power/violence. Instead of condemning the concept of sovereignty as a whole, the paper first draws a distinction between sovereign ...
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Of Ageism, Suicide, and Limiting Life

Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 1995
Increased longevity, life-extending medical technol- ogy, and growing health-care costs have given rise to much discus- sion of the meaning of life in old age and to suggestions that limits be set on the length of life: by suicide or by limiting medical treat- ment. It is argued that, while recommendations that treatment be limited or suicide be viewed
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The Limits of Life

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2012
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Cyanobacteria in Deserts — Life at the Limit?

2006
Cyanobacteria are primitive phototrophic prokaryotes whose long evolutionary history dates back to the Proterozoic era. Their ubiquity on the planet and dominance in hot and cold deserts is a measure of their ecophysiological resilience and adaptability. They have been studied extensively as part of exobiological research into the limits of life in the
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Nature, limits and form-of-life

Environmental Politics, 2021
Luigi Pellizzoni
exaly  

Limitations at the End of Life

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2012
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The limits of reductionism in the life sciences.

History and philosophy of the life sciences, 2011
In the contemporary life sciences more and more researchers emphasize the "limits of reductionism" (e.g. Ahn et al. 2006a, 709; Mazzocchi 2008, 10) or they call for a move "beyond reductionism" (Gallagher/Appenzeller 1999, 79). However, it is far from clear what exactly they argue for and what the envisioned limits of reductionism are.
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