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Nature 440, 582 (30 March 2006) | doi:10.1038/440582a; Published online 29 March 2006

Astrobiology at ten

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A young discipline holds promise yet.

In the 1960s, the evolutionary theorist George Gaylord Simpson rubbished the then-nascent science of exobiology, which concerned itself with life on places other than Earth, as a science without a subject.Now the science descended from exobiology, astrobiology, is heading towards its tenth birthday.

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