In 1924, Russian biochemist Alexander Oparin claimed that life on Earth developed through gradual chemical changes of organic molecules, in the "primordial soup" which likely existed on Earth four billion years ago. In his view, the complex combination of lifeless molecules, joining forces within small oily droplets, could assume life faculties -- self-replication, selection and evolution. These ideas were received with considerable doubt.

Source: A century-old model for life's origin gets significant substantiation


David Cottle

UBB Owner & Administrator