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ALTHOUGH there are good reasons for believing that the life of our world is the product of its own physical conditions, and distinct from the life of other members of the solar system, it is hardly probable that living substance can be produced otherwise than by the same conditions that produced it in the past, and one of these conditions is a vast period of time.
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ALLEN, F. The Origin of Life. Nature 71, 54 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/071054a0
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