Categories: Pseudo-explanations
An example of anthropomorphism in popular scence writing:
"No matter how much a spacecraft is sterilised before launch, there will still be millions of terrestrial microbes happily clinging to it."
Andrew May
May, A. (2019) Astrobiology: The Search for Life Elsewhere in the Universe
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