title: The Astrobiology Primer v2.0.
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authors.lastname: Domagal-Goldman
authors.affiliation: 3 University of Colorado at Boulder , Colorado, USA .|4 Present address: UK Space Agency, UK .
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authors.affiliation: 5 Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, University of Minnesota , Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA .
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authors.affiliation: 6 Tennessee State University , Nashville, Tennessee, USA .
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authors.affiliation: 9 Oberlin College , Oberlin, Ohio, USA .
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authors.affiliation: 10 Division of Biological Sciences, University of Montana , Missoula, Montana, USA .
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authors.affiliation: 11 Institute for research on exoplanets (iREx) , Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada .
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authors.affiliation: 12 Universities Space Research Association , Mountain View, California, USA .|13 Blue Marble Space Institute of Science , Seattle, Washington, USA .
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authors.affiliation: 17 Department of Biology, Carleton College , Northfield, Minnesota, USA .
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authors.affiliation: 18 University of Washington Astronomy Department and Astrobiology Program , Seattle, Washington, USA .
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authors.affiliation: 25 Society for Science & the Public , Washington, DC, USA .
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authors.affiliation: 26 Carnegie Institute for Science , Washington, DC, USA .
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mesh_terms: D005075:Biological Evolution; D018534:Earth, Planet; D004777:Environment; D019419:Evolution, Planetary; D018559:Exobiology; D019369:Life; D000069497:Origin of Life