abiogenesis

In current biological terminology "abiogenesis" refers to the emergence of life as self-replicating assemblages of organic chemicals able to control chemical energy from non-life assemblages of chemicals. This is the hypothesis that primordial life originated within the first billion years of Earth's history as a result of chemical reactions that generated larger and larger organic polymers, which ultimately attained control of bioenergetics and the property of chemical self-replication. This modern conceptualization is reasonable in view of what is now known of the biochemical basis of all life.

image : joke based on the magic thinking of creationism

poke the can to continue, or proceed directly to fossils

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tags [Evolution] [abiogenesis] [biopoiesis]
[Origin of Life]