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• Search for the universal ancestors (Scientific and Technical Information Branch, National Aeronautics and Space Administration :, 1985), by Philip Morrison, J. G. Lawless, and H Hartman (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Genesis: The Scientific Quest for Life's Origin (Washington: Joseph Henry Press, 2005), by Robert M. Hazen (page images with commentary at NAP)
• The Search for Life's Origins: Progress and Future Directions in Planetary Biology and Chemical Evolution (1990), by National Research Council Space Studies Board (page images at NAP)
• The Wonders of Life: A Popular Study of Biological Philosophy (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1905), by Ernst Haeckel, trans. by Joseph McCabe
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• Life and Matter: A Criticism of Professor Haeckel's "Riddle of the Universe" (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1905), by Oliver Lodge (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Life and matter; a criticism of Professor Haeckel's "Riddle of the universe", by Sir Oliver Lodge (Putnam, 1905), by Oliver Lodge (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Relics of primeval life (Hodder and Stoughton, 1897), by John William Dawson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The origin of life and the evolution of living things; an environmental theory. (Philosophical Library, 1952), by Olan R. Hyndman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The wonders of life; a popular study of biological philosophy (Harper, 1905), by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel and Joseph McCabe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life's beginning on the earth (The Williams & Wilkins Company, 1938), by R. Beutner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biogen: a speculation on the origin and nature of life (Estes and Lauriat, 1884), by Elliott Coues (page images at HathiTrust)
• The fitness of the environment : an inquiry into the biological significance of the properties of matter (New York : The Macmillan Company, 1913., 1913), by Lawrence J. Henderson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The origin and evolution of life : on the theory of action, reaction and interaction of energy (C. Scribner's sons, 1917), by Henry Fairfield Osborn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life's panorama (Baggott & Ryall co., 1932), by Samuel Hyman Borofsky (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Lebenswunder; gemeinverständliche Studien über biologische Philosophie. Ergänzungsband zu dem Buche über die Welträthsel. (A. Kröner, 1904), by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A conversational lecture on the origin of life, and celestial mechanics (T. A. Wright, 1892), by St. John O. S. (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'origine et l'évolution de la vie (Masson et cie, 1921), by Henry Fairfield Osborn and Félix Sartiaux (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The earth before history; man's origin and the origin of life (A. A. Knopf, 1925), by Edmond Perrier, Vera Christina Chute Collum, and Paul Radin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life and matter; a criticism of Professor Haeckel's "Riddle of the universe" (G. P. Putnam's sons, 1909), by Oliver Lodge (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The beginnings of life; being some account of the nature, modes of origin & transformation of lower organisms. (Appleton, 1872), by H. Charlton Bastian (page images at HathiTrust)
• Des causes premières de la vie animale matériellement démontrées (J.-B. Baillière et fils;, 1863), by Eugène Moreau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le Darwinisme et les générations spontanées; ou, Réponse aux réfutations de mm. P. Flourens, De Quatrefages, Léon Simon, Chauvet, etc., suivi d'une lettre de m. le dr. F. Pouchet (C. Reinwald, 1870), by D. Rossi (page images at HathiTrust)
• The origin and evolution of life, on the theory of action, reaction and interaction of energy (C. Scribner's sons, 1918), by Henry Fairfield Osborn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Considérations sur l'ėtre vivant. ... (Impr. A. Dumontier, 1920), by Charles Janet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tarvinakanutʻiwn kam tesakatsʻ ew mardus tsagman khndirě (Mkhitʻarean Tparan, 1913), by Simēon Eremian (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The origin and evolution of life : on the theory of action, reaction and interaction of energy (C. Scribner's sons, 1930), by Henry Fairfield Osborn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Origins roadmap 2003 (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 2003), by United States. Space Science Advisory Committee. Astronomical Search for Origins & Planetary Systems Subcommittee and United States. Office of Space Science (page images at HathiTrust)
• The wonders of life : a popular study of biological philosophy (Watts, 1904), by Ernst Haeckel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The origin of life and process of reproduction in plants and animals : with the anatomy and physiology of the human generative system, male and female, and the causes, prevention and cure of the special diseases to which it is liable ; a plain, practical treatise, for popular use (D. McKay, 1902), by Frederick Hollick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life and matter : a criticism of Professor Haeckel's "Riddle of the Universe" . (Williams & Norgate, 1906), by Oliver Lodge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Experiments on the generation of insects (The Open court publishing company; [etc., etc.], 1909), by Francesco Redi, Mab Bigelow, and Robert Payne Bigelow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Química ancestral. (Empresa El Cojo, 1909), by Diego Carbonell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die entstehung der chromosomen. Evolution oder epigenese? (Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1907), by Kálmán v Tellyesniczky (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die entstehung des Lebens auf der Erde (Franz Wunder, 1904), by Emil Koenig (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Wie ist das Leben entstanden? : Ein Beitrag zur Lösung des Lebensrätsels (Strecker & Schröder, 1907), by Emil Koenig (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Biologie générale. La vie de la matière; recherches expérimentales (F. Bouchy, 1921), by V. Galippe and G. Souffland (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• La forme et le mouvement; essai de dynamique de la vie, avec 15 figures dans le texte. (E. Flammarion, 1921), by Georges Bohn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Life and matter; an exposition of part of the philosophy of science, with special references to the influence of Professor Haeckel. (Williams and Norgate, 1911), by Oliver Lodge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biomechanik und Biogenesis (G. Fischer, 1912), by Moriz Benedikt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Le secret de la vie; les ondes cosmiqes et la radiation vitale. (Gauthier-Villars et cie, 1925), by Georges Lakhovsky (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Evolution of life and form : four lectures delivered at the twenty-third anniversary meeting of the Theosophical Society at Adyar, Madras, 1898 (Theosophical Pub. Society, 1900), by Annie Besant and Theosophical Society (Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A theory of life deduced from the evolution philosophy (Williams and Norgate, 1897), by Sylvan Drey (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'enigma della vita e i nuovi orizzonti della biologia; introduzione allo studio delle scienze biologiche (Libreria editrice fiorentina, 1910), by Agostino Gemelli (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Life on the earth; its origin and succession. (Macmillan and co., 1860), by John Phillips (page images at HathiTrust)
• Where did life begin? A brief enquiry as to the probable place of beginning and the natural courses of migration therefrom of the flora and fauna of the earth; a monograph (C. Scribner's sons, 1883), by G. Hilton Scribner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life's dawn on earth : being the history of the oldest known fossil remains, and their relation to geological time and to the development of the animal kingdom. (Hodder & Stoughton, 1875), by John William Dawson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The nature and origin of living matter (T. F. Unwin, 1905), by H. Charlton Bastian (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Search for the universal ancestors (Scientific and Technical Information Branch, National Aeronautics and Space Administration :, 1985), by Philip Morrison, J. G. Lawless, and H Hartman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The probable infinity of nature and life; three essays (R.G. Badger, 1918), by William Emerson Ritter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Origin of life on earth and elsewhere. II. (Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, 1960), by Melvin Calvin and Lawrence Radiation Laboratory (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das Problem des Lebens; biologische Studien. (H. Haacke, 1906), by Eduard von Hartmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Erscheinungendes Lebens : grundprobleme der Modernen Biologie (B.G. Teubner, 1907), by Hugo Miehe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The origin of life : a reply to Sir Oliver Lodge (Watts & Co., 1906), by Joseph McCabe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Galeni qui fertur libellus Ei zōon to kata gastros (R. Noske, 1914), by Galen and Hermann Wagner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Que sais-je? Examen de Conscience. Sur l'origine de la vie terrestre. Le problème des causes finales (Lemerre, 1908), by Sully Prudhomme and Charles Richet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An original hypothesis of the origin of life (Moore-Bentley, 1917), by M. A. Moore-Bentley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Considerations on the vital principle, with a description of Mr. Crosse's experiments, and strictures on Dr. Weissenborn's lucubrations (Relfe, 1838), by John Murray (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ursprung und Entwickelung der thierischen Gewebe. Ein histogenetischer Beitrag zur Gastraes-Theorie (G. Fischer, 1884), by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (page images at HathiTrust)
• The beginnings of life: being some account of the nature, modes of origin and transformation of lower organisms. (Macmillan and co., 1872), by H. Charlton Bastian (page images at HathiTrust)
• The origin and evolution of life : on the theory of reaction and interaction of energy (C. Scribner, 1918), by Henry Fairfield Osborn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Protoplasm and life, two biological essays (N.D.C. Hodges, 1890), by Charles Finney Cox (page images at HathiTrust)
• Where did life begin? A brief inquiry as to the probable place of beginning and the natural courses of migration there-from of the flora and fauna of the earth; a monograph (C. Scribner's Sons, 1903), by G. Hilton Scribner (page images at HathiTrust)
• The evolution of life (E.P. Dutton & co., 1907), by H. Charlton Bastian (page images at HathiTrust)
• The origin of life. (Published by the author and discoverer, 1916), by H. L. McKibben (page images at HathiTrust)
• La terre avant l'histoire; les origines de la vie et de l'homme (Renaissance du livre, 1921), by Edmond Perrier (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• La vie des mineraux, la plasmogenèse et le biomecanisme universal (H. Lamertin], 1910), by Jules Félix and Alfonso L. Herrera (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Lebenswunder; gemeinverständliche Studien über biologische Philosophie. Ergänzungsband zu dem Buche über die Welträthsel. (A. Kröner, 1905), by Ernst Haeckel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Chemical evolution and the origin of life ([Lawrence] Radiation Laboratory, 1955), by Melvin Calvin and Berkeley. Radiation Laboratory. Department of Chemistry University of California (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Life processes (Printed for W.L. Staley by Clermont Press, 1934), by William L. Staley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The laws of healing : physical and metaphysical (Theosophy Co., 1937), by Robert Crosbie, William Quan Judge, and H. P. Blavatsky (page images at HathiTrust)
• Präformation oder Epigenese? : Grundzüge einer Entwicklungstheorie der Organismen. (G. Fischer, 1894), by Oscar Hertwig (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays on psychological subjects. ([printed] by T. Combe [et al.], 1868), by Gilbert William Child (page images at HathiTrust)
• El origen de la vida (Publicaciones de la Escuela Moderna, 1912), by J. M Pargame, Cristóbal Litrán, and Spain) Escuela moderna (Hospitalet de Llobregat (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• L'origine de la vie. La radiation et les êtres vivants ... (Éditions Nilsson, 1925), by Georges Lakhovsky (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Qué es la vida? ... (Imprenta nacional, 1907), by Luis Razetti (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Roadmap for the Office of Space Science origins theme (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1995), by United States. Space Science Advisory Committee. Astronomical Search for Origins & Planetary Systems Subcommittee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ueber die Grenzen des Pflanzen- und Thierreichs und den Ursprung des organischen Lebens auf der Erfe. (J.G. Calve, 1888), by Moritz Willkomm (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays on physiological subjects (Longmans, Green, and Co., 1869), by Gilbert William Child (page images at HathiTrust)
• Physikalische Theorie des Lebens. (Gustav Fischer, 1910), by Felix Auerbach (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The origin and problem of life; a psycho-physiological study (G. Routledge & sons, ltd.;, 1921), by Arthur E. Baines (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science ([s.n.], 1870), by Thomas Henry Huxley and British Association for the Advancement of Science (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nachalo i vechnostʹ zhizni. (Izd-vo Vremi︠a︡, 1922), by V. I. Vernadskiĭ (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Specimen academicum, exhibens tentamen biozoogeniae generalis, quo continentur leges primitivae apparitionis entium organicorum ad superficiem telluris, eorumque speciei propagationis per generationem, novae inquisitiones de modo quo producuntur entozoa intestinalia et zoospermoes quo vero propagantur infusoria, vegetabiliaque microscopica, quod... (ex Typographia H. Remy, 1829), by Charles Morren (page images at HathiTrust)
• La vie des minéraux, la plasmogenèse et le biomécanisme universel. Atlas de biologie générale (H. Lamerlin], 1910), by Jules Félix (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Origin of life and seven fundamental questions (Welsh-Richards Co., 1917), by P. F. Halferty (page images at HathiTrust)
• The fitness of the environment : an inquiry into the biological significance of the properties of matter (The Macmillan Company, 1927), by Lawrence Joseph Henderson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The dawn of life being the history of the oldest known fossil remains, and their relations to geological time, and to the development of the animal kingdom (Dawson, 1875), by J. W. Dawson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Spontaneous generation, or predestinated generation (s.n., 1878), by TRFAD. (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the origin of life on the globe (s.n., 1909), by A. B. Macallum (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• La vie considérations biologiques (s.n.], 1911), by Albert Laurendeau (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Man's place in nature, and other anthropological essays (Macmillan, 1894), by Thomas Henry Huxley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Studies in heterogenesis (Williams and Norgate, 1903), by H. Charlton Bastian (page images at HathiTrust)
• The new physics and chemistry: a series of popular essays on physical and chemical subjects (Smith, Elder & co., 1906), by W. A. Shenstone (page images at HathiTrust)
• The philosophy of evolution (J. Van Voorst, 1873), by B. Thompson Lowne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Relics of primeval life : beginning of life in the dawn of geological time (F.H. Revell, 1897), by John William Dawson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The origin and evolution of life on the theory of action, reaction and interaction of energy (Scribner, 1918), by Henry Fairfield Osborn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les énigmes de l'univers. (C. Reinwald :, 1903), by Ernst Haeckel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Examen de conscience. Sur l'origine de la vie terrestre. (A. Lemerre, 1896), by René Franc̦ois Armand Sulley-Prudhomme (page images at HathiTrust)
• The origin of life; being an account of experiments with certain superheated saline solutions in hermetically sealed vessels. (Watt & Co., 1913), by H. Charlton Bastian (page images at HathiTrust)
• The fitness of the environment; an inquiry into the biological significance of the properties of matter (The Macmillan Company, 1918), by Lawrence Joseph Henderson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The origin of life; being an account of experiments with certain superheated saline solutions in hermetically sealed vessels. (G. P. Putnam's sons, 1911), by H. Charlton Bastian and William B. Provine Collection on Evolution and Genetics (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Lebenswunder : Gemeinverständliche Studien über Biologische Philosophie (A. Kroner, 1904), by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Biogen: a speculation on the origin and nature of life (Estes and Lauriat, 1884), by Elliott Coues (page images at HathiTrust)
• Z͡Hyti͡e. (Prosvita, 1912), by Hnat Khotkevych (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The nature and origin of living matter (Philadelphia, 1906), by H. Charlton Bastian (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die lebenswunder; gemeinverständliche studien über biologische philosophie. (A. Kröner, 1904), by Ernst Haeckel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The earth before history; man's origin and the origin of life (K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & co., ltd., 1925), by Edmond Perrier, Vera Christina Chute Collum, and Paul Radin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• L'enigma della vita e i nuovi orizzonti della biologia; introduzione allo studio delle scienze biologiche (con 146 figure nel testo). (Libreria editrice fiorentina, 1914), by Agostino Gemelli (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The mystery of life (London : S.P.C.K., 1915., 1915), by John Edward Mercer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The origin and evolution of life : on the theory of action, reaction and interaction of energy (New York : Scribner's, 1918., 1918), by Henry Fairfield Osborn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Relics of Primeval Life: Beginning of Life in the Dawn of Geological Time, by John William Dawson (Gutenberg ebook)
• Life's Dawn on Earth: Being the history of the oldest known fossil remains, and their relations to geological time and to the development of the animal kingdom, by John William Dawson (Gutenberg ebook)
• The modes of origin of lowest organisms: including a discussion of the experiments of M. Pasteur, by H. Charlton Bastian (Gutenberg ebook)
• Evolution of Life and Form: Four lectures delivered at the twenty-third anniversary meeting of the Theosophical Society at Adyar, Madras, 1898, by Annie Besant (Gutenberg ebook)
• Life and Matter: A Criticism of Professor Haeckel's "Riddle of the Universe", by Oliver Lodge (Gutenberg ebook)

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