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ArticleHeliyon2023

Eighteen distinctive characteristics of life.

Yunus A Çengel

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Article in Heliyon, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Yunus A ÇengelDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557, USA.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A practical approach in the inquiry of life is to contrast living beings with nonliving ones from different perspectives and extract the distinctive features of living beings. We can identify features and mechanisms that truthfully account for the differences between living and nonliving beings by making rigorous logic-based inferences. The set of these differences constitutes the traits or characteristics of life. When the living beings are carefully examined, the apparent characteristics of life are ascertained to be

Indexed as

Agency of lifeAnimate beingsCharacteristics of lifeFeatures of lifeLifeNature of lifeOntology of lifeTraits of life

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PMID37101483
PMCPMC10123176

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