Labels:bulletin board | reckoner OCR: In private correspondence however, he suggested life could have arisen through chemistry, "in some warm little pond with all sorts of ammonia and phosphoric salts light heat, electricity, etc present For much of the 20th century origin-of -life research has aimed to flesh out Darwin's private hypothesis to elucidate how without supernatural intervention spontaneous interaction of the relatively simple molecules dissolved in the lakes or oceans of the prebiotic world could have yielded life's last common ancestor Finding a solution to this problem requires knowing something about that ancestor's characteristics. Obviously it had to pssssss genetic information that is heritable instructions for functioning and reproducing and the means to replicate and carry out those instructions Otherwise ...
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