But we don’t really even know what’s “ideal”. If you read the article they go through the stages of achievements in laboratory synthesis of amino acids and prot

But we don’t really even know what’s “ideal”. If you read the article they go through the stages of achievements in laboratory synthesis of amino acids and proteins. Early work focused on heat and electricity. Later work realized that all you need was wet/dry cycles. You see we’re still figuring out what the conditions should be. Yes we’re good and recreating specific conditions, but we’re still figuring which ones we should strive for. Natural of course had the luxury of just trying them, in parallel, over vast amounts of time.