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Equation 1 · Part 1 · Comparing the Main Approaches to Origins of Life and Astrobiology

Symbol H_ab

HabH_{ab}
HabH_{ab}

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…hypothesis versus under one or more specific abiotic alternative hypotheses, yields a posterior probability rather than a binary yes-or-no verdict [ 7 ] . Written compactly, for a single candidate abiotic alternative HabH_{ab} competing with a life hypothesis HbioH_{bio} given data D :

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