DEFINITIONS OF LIFE RELEVANT TO ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION—IMPLICATION IN SCIENCE EDUCATION
2014 Volume 42 Issue 4 Pages 32-37
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2014 Volume 42 Issue 4 Pages 32-37
Definition of life has been investigated by many researchers for many years. The researchers belonging to different fields have stressed their definitions from their view points. Therefore, they draw the line between life and non-life at different positions. Now there are many proposals to allow the meaningless of the definition of life to lead the goal of origin of life. However, I pretend to address a brief history of the definition of life and to seek some criterion of the definition of life, which may not be useful for researchers but useful for teachers. The criterion of definition of life must be a good foothold to teach students sciences including biology.
