Sentence examples for extant life from inspiring English sources

By looking for extinct rather than extant life, it could sample all of Martian geologic history.

If Kepler doesn't come through, that means Earth is really rare and we might be the only extant life in the universe and our loneliness is just beginning.

"These may be the best places to search for extant life near the surface of Mars," said Alfred McEwen, a planetary geologist at the University of Arizona and senior author on the study.

Subsurface permafrost environments on Mars are considered to be zones where extant life could have survived.

We describe some previously unnoticed domains and the possible evolutionary stages leading to the RNA polymerases of extant life forms.

An extant life detection mission looking for microbes would have very low probability of success, the group concluded.

As I pointed out previously, it can be misleading to only consider branches in the tree of life that have extant representatives [ 91].

Physicist Emory Bunn (2009) shows that the evolution of extant complex life is compatible with the second law of thermodynamics as long as the time required for life to evolve on Earth is at least ∼107 s or 116 days.

However, in natural settings, microbial growth and decay continually over as little as several years can alter the original microbe-mineral configuration making it difficult to identify a direct association between extant microbial life and precipitates.

Twenty-one miniatures from the finest extant illustrated life of the poet and mystic Rumi (1207 1273), dating from the 1590s, is the masterpiece of the Baghdad School.

Universal common ancestry is the hypothesis that all extant terrestrial life shares a common genetic heritage.