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JOURNAL OF BIOMOLECULAR STRUCTURE & DYNAMICS
Volume 29, Issue 2, Pages 259-266Publisher
ADENINE PRESS
DOI: 10.1080/073911011010524992
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Consensus; Definientia; Evolution; Origin of life; Self-reproduction; Variations; Vocabulary
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Analysis of the vocabulary of 123 tabulated definitions of life reveals nine groups of defining terms (definientia) of which the groups (self-)reproduction and evolution (variation) appear as the minimal set for a concise and inclusive definition: Life is self-reproduction with variations.
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