Frontier or fiction

Antonio Lazcano () and Kevin P. Hand ()
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Antonio Lazcano: Antonio Lazcano is a biologist in the Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad Universitaria, 04510 Mexico DF, Mexico.
Kevin P. Hand: Kevin P. Hand is a planetary scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91103, USA.

Nature, 2012, vol. 488, issue 7410, 160-161

Abstract: Astrobiology, the study of life in the Universe, is sometimes criticized as being a fashionable label with which to rebrand existing research fields. Its practitioners, however, argue that the discipline provides a broad framework for developing a better understanding of the frontiers of biology. A biologist and a planetary scientist offer their views.

Date: 2012
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