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. 2022 Jul;22(7):889-900.
doi: 10.1089/ast.2021.0173. Epub 2022 Jun 8.

Urability: A Property of Planetary Bodies That Can Support an Origin of Life

David Deamer  1 , Francesca Cary  2 , Bruce Damer  1
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Urability: A Property of Planetary Bodies That Can Support an Origin of Life

David Deamer et al. Astrobiology. 2022 Jul.

Abstract

The concept of habitability is now widely used to describe zones in a solar system in which planets with liquid water can sustain life. Because habitability does not explicitly incorporate the origin of life, this article proposes a new word-urability-which refers to the conditions that allow life to begin. The utility of the word is tested by applying it to combinations of multiple geophysical and geochemical factors that support plausible localized zones that are conducive to the chemical reactions and molecular assembly processes required for the origin of life. The concept of urable worlds, planetary bodies that can sustain an arising of life, is considered for bodies in our own solar system and exoplanets beyond.

Keywords: Early Earth; Habitability; Origin of life.

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