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Origins of life: Chemical evolution in a tiny Gulf Stream – Phys.org

Chemical reactions driven by the geological conditions on the early Earth might have led to the prebiotic evolution of self-replicating molecules. Scientists at Ludwig-Maximilians Universitaet (LMU) in Munich now report on a hydrothermal mechanism that could …

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Chemical reactions driven by the geological conditions on the early Earth might have led to the prebiotic evolution of self-replicating molecules. Scientists at Ludwig-Maximilians Universitaet (LMU) in Munich now report on a hydrothermal mechanism that could have promoted the process.
Life is a product of evolution by natural selection. That’s the take-home lesson from Charles Darwin’s book “The Origin of Species,” published over 150 years ago. But how did the history of life on our planet begi…

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