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Abiogenesis

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Abiogenesis is the natural process by which life arises from non-living matter, such as simple organic compounds, and is the leading scientific hypothesis for the origin of life on Earth.

Facts
Proposed YearSourced to the subject's own account
1924 1
Proposed BySourced to the subject's own account
Alexander Oparin and J. B. S. Haldane 1
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Proposed By

Additional Source Abiogenesis (Wikipedia)A warm little pond primordial soup section (edge: proposed-by, Oparin)
Additional Source Abiogenesis (Wikipedia)A warm little pond primordial soup section (edge: proposed-by, Haldane)

Tested By

Miller-Urey Experiment, Experiments

The 1952 experiment showed that amino acids form spontaneously from simple gases under plausible early-Earth conditions, direct empirical support cited throughout the abiogenesis literature.

Sources
1. Abiogenesis (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia
  • Lead section (entity-description)
    Abiogenesis is the natural process by which life arises from non-living matter, such as simple organic compounds.
  • Lead section (proposed-year)
    The modern scientific hypothesis was first proposed by Alexander Oparin in 1924 and independently by J. B. S. Haldane in 1929.
  • Lead section (proposed-by)
    The modern scientific hypothesis was first proposed by Alexander Oparin in 1924 and independently by J. B. S. Haldane in 1929.
  • Proposed By: Alexander Oparin, A warm little pond primordial soup section (edge: proposed-by, Oparin)
    Alexander Oparin in 1924 and J. B. S. Haldane in 1929 proposed that the earliest cells slowly self-organized from a primordial soup, the Oparin-Haldane hypothesis.
  • Proposed By: J. B. S. Haldane, A warm little pond primordial soup section (edge: proposed-by, Haldane)
    Alexander Oparin in 1924 and J. B. S. Haldane in 1929 proposed that the earliest cells slowly self-organized from a primordial soup, the Oparin-Haldane hypothesis.
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