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prelife

(priːˈlaɪf)

(Alternative Belief Systems) a life lived before one's life on earth

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28 ( ANI ): Researchers examined children's ideas about "prelife," the time before conception, and found that our bias toward immortality is a part of human intuition that naturally emerges early in life.

Hard-wired belief in immortality naturally emerges early in life

Because simpler membranes are more likely to have formed from the natural organic chemistry factory on prelife Earth, the protocell project is working on plainer lipids--chiefly ordinary fatty acids.

Life from scratch: relaunching biology from the beginning

Geogenesis is the evolution of the cosmos in the form of prelife in the geosphere.