How did life begin? How did chemical reactions on the early Earth create complex, self-replicating structures that developed into living things as we know them? According to one school of thought, before the current era of DNA-based life, there was a...
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It’s really an error of article choice for the title, it should be “Scientists Just Recreated a Chemical Reaction…”
Doubt that you read the article. It’s short, but quite interesting.
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Depends. You’d have to have the right soup, and the right environmental conditions to make the the relevant reactions probable.
If those conditions exist currently, those proto-life fragments would probably need to be in niches devoid of life, as they wouldn’t be able to compete/survive with DNA based lifeforms around.
it’s possible microbial life is common but complex life is rare
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The egg came first.
… an egg laid by something that was almost, but not quite, a chicken.
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I know what you were going for, I was pointing out that it was a bad analogy.