Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
10696882 Advances in Space Research 2005 6 Pages PDF
Abstract
It is supposed that the sequence of the Earth's biospheric revolutions obeys the scaling law. An estimation of the duration of the prebiological chemical evolution as (5-7) × 109 years is obtained by an extrapolation of the scaling law of the biospheric evolution. The expected scale of time of interstellar prebiological panspermia (∼0.2 × 109 yr) is much shorter then the estimated duration of the prebiological chemical evolution. The hypothesis of the long prebiological chemical evolution implies that: (a) the prebiological evolution and the origin of life may be a self-consistent Galaxy process and not a process localized on single planets and (b) life has the same chemical base and the same chirality everywhere in the Galaxy.
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