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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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Author: Keith

Former school and college science teacher, teacher educator, research supervisor, and research methods lecturer. Emeritus Professor of Science Education at the University of Cambridge.