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ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF LIFE
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• abiotic
• adaptation
• adaptive radiation
• allopatric speciation
• amino acids
• analogous
• archaea
• autopoesis
• ballistic panspermia
• banded iron formation
• Bernard system
• biogenesis
• biopoiesis
• bipedalism
• Cairns-Smith, Alexander Graham (1931-)
• Cambrian
• cell membrane, origin of
• cephalization
• clay, role in prebiotic evolution
• coacervate
• coevolution
• competitive exclusion
• contingency
• convergent evolution
• cosmic collisions, biological effects
• Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary
• cyanobacteria
• directed panspermia
• domain
• Earth, early history
• Ediacaran period
• emergence
• enantiomers, bias in terrestrial life
• endosymbiotic theory
• evolution
• evolutionary theory and extraterrestrial life
• extinction, biological
• extremophile
• founder effect
• "garbage theory," of the origin of life
• genetic drift
• hydrothermal vent
• late heavy bombardment
• life, nature of
• life, origin of
• macroevolution
• mass extinction
• microevolution
• microsphere
• Miller-Urey experiment
• natural selection
• Neanderthal
• neo-Darwinism
• oceans, origin of
• Oparin-Haldane theory
• prebiotic evolution
• proteinoid
• protobiological
• protobiont
• protocell
• punctuated equilibrium
• random drift
• ribozyme
• RNA world
• self-organization
• speciation
• spontaneous generation
• thermal protein
• Troland, Leonard (1889-1932)
• uracil
• variation
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