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I personally doubt it. While abiogenesis is in progress but before it has produced life, the intermediate products are probably eaten by existing life. New
by partialrecall 7y ago
I personally doubt it. While abiogenesis is in progress but before it has produced life, the intermediate products are probably eaten by existing life. New forms of life are probably 'out-competed' before they even become forms of life. The conditions for the formation of life might be relatively trivial, but after it succeeds once it's unlikely to ever succeed again.
Of course, sterile experiments in a laboratory might give us a lower bound on just how trivial the requirements for abiogenesis are. So far nobody has noticed it happening in a lab, despite more than a few trying.