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People have studied this, and basic building blocks (amino acids) arise spontaneously when electric current is applied to chemical soups for example. Also when
by le-mark 9y ago
People have studied this, and basic building blocks (amino acids) arise spontaneously when electric current is applied to chemical soups for example. Also when we look around today, we see the end prodcut of billions of years of evolution, we don't know what truly primitive life may have looked like in the first few millions years, life forms even more primitive than viruses, say.
- PoachedSausage 9y agoSome of the chemo-synthesizing lifeforms around volcanic vents might be close.
- low_battery 9y agoStill, a few amino acids are far far away from proteins, let alone all proteins that work together and makes a simple living cell. Or mechanisms like: https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/mitochondria-14053590 https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/mitochondria-14053... it might still be possible "given enough time".