Categories: Pseudo-explanations
An example of anthropomorphism in popular science writing.
"Oxygen, in fact [sic], likes to combine with a whole range of things, so it too would disappear in short order if it wasn't being renewed somehow."
Andrew May
May, A. (2019) Astrobiology: The Search for Life Elsewhere in the Universe. Icon Books
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