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Word: pittendrigh (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1965-1965
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More from the Sun. Martian life, said the panel headed by Princeton Biologist Colin S. Pittendrigh and Stanford's Nobel-prizewinning Geneticist Joshua Lederberg, must be hardy enough to survive long periods of extreme dryness and cold. Martian organisms may concentrate water vapor the way earthly plants collect small traces of carbon dioxide; they may even make their own water by chemical action. There is a possibility that they need no water at all, using some other liquid as a fluid medium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exobiology: The Search for Martian Life | 5/7/1965 | See Source »

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