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Equation 2 · Part 1 · Comparing the Main Approaches to Origins of Life and Astrobiology

Symbol H_bio

HbioH_{bio}
HbioH_{bio}

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…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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