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Appendix B: Request from NASA
Pages 142-142

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... Canizares: The investigation of the ancient Martian meteorite ALH84001 for evidence of life has revealed and highlighted a large degree of uncertainty in the possible existence of extremely small microorganisms here on Earth. The question of minimal microbial size is debated within the scientific community and there is no widely accepted theoretical minimum size for microorganisms.
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