the.com/origin of life
the day chemistry got ambitious and started keeping receipts.
means the still-unsolved question of how non-living molecules assembled into the first self-replicating, evolving systems we call life.
from darwin speculated about a warm little pond in 1871; the field got experimental in 1952 when miller and urey zapped a jar of gases with electricity and found amino acids waiting inside, like life had left a tip.
leading sitehydrothermal vents, not ponds, say many now
rna worldrna may have been both gene and enzyme first
timelinelife appeared within 500 million years of earth forming
panspermia ideasome ingredients may have arrived via meteorites