Lovelock's definition of life: "Life is that function which optimizes the conditions for its existence"
Duden dismisses this as a "tautology"
> from Barbara Duden's Disembodying Women: Perspectives on Pregnancy and the Unborn (1993)
> tagged with #biology
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