Life in the Universe (4th Edition)
Life in the Universe (4th Edition)
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ISBN: 9780134089089
Author: Jeffrey O. Bennett, Seth Shostak
Publisher: PEARSON
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Whether the absence of evidence for any life in universe after various efforts and years of searching will be a waste of money and resources.

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Which of the following seems least reasonable regarding life on Earth? Group of answer choices   There is much scientific evidence suggesting that all creatures living on Earth today appear to have evolved from a common ancestor.   Louis Pasteur discredited the concept of spontaneous generation by demonstrating that even bacteria and other microorganisms arise from parents resembling themselves.   There is ample physical evidence that the earliest life forms on Earth were multicellular creatures, perhaps resembling some of our primitive fish.   When the earth formed some 4.6 billion years ago, it was a lifeless, inhospitable place.   Before the mid-17th century, most people believed that God had created humankind and other higher organisms and that insects, frogs, and other small creatures could arise spontaneously in mud or decaying matter About billion years into its development, the Earth it was teeming with organisms resembling blue-green algae.

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