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*[http://economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=5518892 "In the Beginning..." (''The Economist'')]
*[http://economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=5518892 "In the Beginning..." (''The Economist'')]
:*From the preface: "How life on Earth got going is still mysterious, but not for want of ideas."
**From the preface: "How life on Earth got going is still mysterious, but not for want of ideas."
 
*[http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/life/ Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry]
*[http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/life/ Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry]
:*Excerpt from Conclusion: "“Living organisms are autopoietic systems: self-constructing, self-maintaining, energy-transducing autocatalytic entities” in which information needed to construct the next generation of organisms is stabilized in nucleic acids that replicate within the context of whole cells and work with other developmental resources during the life-cycles of organisms, but they are also “systems capable of evolving by variation and natural selection: self-reproducing entities, whose forms and functions are adapted to their environment and reflect the composition and history of an ecosystem” (Harold 2001, 232)."  
**Excerpt from Conclusion: "“Living organisms are autopoietic systems: self-constructing, self-maintaining, energy-transducing autocatalytic entities” in which information needed to construct the next generation of organisms is stabilized in nucleic acids that replicate within the context of whole cells and work with other developmental resources during the life-cycles of organisms, but they are also “systems capable of evolving by variation and natural selection: self-reproducing entities, whose forms and functions are adapted to their environment and reflect the composition and history of an ecosystem” (Harold 2001, 232)."  
 
*[http://www.larger-than-life.org/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=2 Life under extreme conditions].
*[http://www.larger-than-life.org/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=2 Life under extreme conditions].
*[http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9106478/life Life - Encyclopedia Britannica article by Carl Sagan, etc.]
*[http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9106478/life Life - Encyclopedia Britannica article by Carl Sagan, etc.]
*[http://www.edge.org/documents/life/life_index.html LIFE: WHAT A CONCEPT!] - An [http://www.edge.org/ Edge] Special Event at Eastover Farm (Aug. 27, 2007), with videos and full-text transcript. Summary [http://ways.org/en/2008/jan/25/2142/daniel/how_treat_fundamental_questions here].
 
*[http://www.edge.org/documents/life/life_index.html LIFE: WHAT A CONCEPT!]  
**An [http://www.edge.org/ Edge] Special Event at Eastover Farm (Aug. 27, 2007), with videos and full-text transcript. Summary  
 
*[http://ways.org/en/2008/jan/25/2142/daniel/how_treat_fundamental_questions How to treat fundamental questions.]
 
*[http://www.physicalgeography.net/fundamentals/9a.html What is Life.] The Franklin Institute

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  • Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry
    • Excerpt from Conclusion: "“Living organisms are autopoietic systems: self-constructing, self-maintaining, energy-transducing autocatalytic entities” in which information needed to construct the next generation of organisms is stabilized in nucleic acids that replicate within the context of whole cells and work with other developmental resources during the life-cycles of organisms, but they are also “systems capable of evolving by variation and natural selection: self-reproducing entities, whose forms and functions are adapted to their environment and reflect the composition and history of an ecosystem” (Harold 2001, 232)."