The panspermia theory, that is the possibility that life arrived on our planet transported by meteorites lithopanspermia, was suggested in 1865 by the german physicist hermann e. Panspermia from ancient greek pan, meaning all, and sperma, meaning seed is the hypothesis that life exists throughout the universe, distributed by space dust, meteoroids, asteroids, comets, planetoids, and also by spacecraft carrying unintended contamination by microorganisms. Created using powtoon free sign up at create animated videos and animated presentations for free. In 1871, lord kelvin supported the same thesis that germs transported by meteorites might have infected the earth thomson. Panspermia theory for lifes origins gets boost from top. We turn now to the extraordinary, and largely unknown, prehistory of panspermia. Teoria panspermia michelle ramirez paula vaca frank wright panspermia definicion pan. Web to pdf convert any web pages to highquality pdf files while retaining page layout, images, text and. The theory also states that evolution of life to higher forms is dependent on the genetics of the original microbes that came from space.
A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. It will become clear that considerable uncertainties remain about panspermia, even though significant advances have been made recently. Directed panspermia from space to seed earth orgel and crick, 1973 or sent from earth to seed other solar systems mautner 1979, 1997 has also been proposed. Panspermia is a theory suggesting that microbes transmitted to earth from space are responsible for the origin of life. The panspermia theory opines that life originated from extraterrestrial sources. Biological evidence against the panspermia theory request pdf. Panspermia because many eminent scientists have championed this theory, it has now achieved some credibility in the science world. Panspermia the theory that life came from outer space. The cosmic ancestry hypothesis about which this site has a large amount of information treats all of evolution, not just the origin of life on earth, as due to interaction with cosmic microorganisms.
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