Life: past, present and future.

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• Publication year

  1999

• Venue

  Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences

• Publication date

  1999-12-29

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1098/RSTB.1999.0532PMID 10670014PMCID PMC1692713
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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