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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9109402/creation-myth - Britannica's article on the creation myth
http://www.search.eb.com/eb/article-9106478 - Britannica's article 'life' written by Carl Sagan
http://astrobiology.nasa.gov/about-astrobiology/ - NASA’s Astrobiology Program addresses three fundamental questions: How does life begin and evolve? Is there life beyond Earth and, if so, how can we detect it? What is the future of life on Earth and in the universe?
http://www.biology-online.org/dictionary/Cellular_respiration - cellular respiration
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9811807 - "Prions are transmissible particles that are devoid of nucleic acid..."
http://books.google.com/books?id=PVbiAAAACAAJ - The Human Biological Machine As a Transformational Apparatus
http://mechanism.ucsd.edu/~bill/teaching/philbio/vitalism.htm#Q109BIBENT7 - Animal Chemistry or Organic Chemistry in its Application to Physiology and Pathology (1842)
http://www.healthguidance.org/entry/6351/1/Medical-History--The-Eighteenth-Century.html - Georg Ernst Stahl's vitalist views

Death

Since death is an intimate aspect of life, I have added a new section to the article, it deals with death, extinctions and fossil records. I would apreciate a review of it. BatteryIncluded (talk) 22:17, 23 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I think it suits. Binksternet (talk) 03:15, 24 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

While death is certainly not "an intimate aspect of life," it is nevertheless the conceptual opposite of (or complement to) "life." So yes, I agree that "death" needs a mention here, just as I suggested that "life" actually be mentioned in the "death" article.

But note that because this is a high-level concept, we need to clarify what particular concepts of "death" (biological, colloquial, other extant concepts...) we are dealing with, and distinguish these from each other. Regards, -Ste vertigo 05:16, 16 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You have to be kidding! Are you going subdivide death into Kind'a dead, sort'a dead and Bloody hell, it's dead!? Get real. Dead is dead.65.213.100.34 (talk) 18:01, 23 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]