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the day chemistry got bored of being still and started copying itself.
means the natural process by which life arose from non-living matter, no creator or spark of magic required, just chemistry with enough time.
from from greek a- (not) plus bios (life) plus genesis (origin), coined in the 1800s to replace the old belief in spontaneous generation, mice from rags, maggots from meat, with a serious question about life's actual chemical start.
not evolutionevolution starts after the first replicator exists
leading theoryrna world came before dna and proteins
lab progressscientists have made self-replicating molecules, not full cells
timelinehappened within a billion years of earth forming