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The Universe and Life: Deductions from The Weak Anthropic Principle
Hoyle, F.; Wickramasinghe, N. C.
Astrophysics and Space Science, v. 268, Issue 1/3, p. 89-102 (1999).
The existence of life in the Universe is interpreted in terms of the `Weak Anthropic Principle'. It is shown that cosmological models are constrained to a class that involves an open timescale and access to infinite quantities of carbonaceous material.