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Origin of Life

"Origin of Life" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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The process by which life began.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Origin of Life" by people in this website by year, and whether "Origin of Life" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 4 publications over 4 distinct years, with a maximum of 1 publications in 1995 and 2009 and 2016 and 2022
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