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1 1 Quoted in [3.61], pp. 122-3.
2 2 A recent accessible presentation of the same argument was given by Addy Pross in his fine neo-Schrödingerian book What is Life? [3.53].
3 3 Note that Fry’s book appeared almost simultaneously with much less interesting and important, but way more talked about Rare Earth [3.66]. For comparison, as of this writing (December 2020), Google Scholar records 290 citations of The Emergence of Life against more than 900 for Rare Earth.