The Beginnings of Life

02/11/2013 08:38

What are the origins of life on Earth? How did things go from non-living to living, from something that could not reproduce to something that could? How can a collection of inanimate atoms become animate? How did organic molecules achieve a high enough level of complexity to be considered as “living”? The short answer is: we do not really know how life originated on this planet. The longer answer, however, is much more interesting. [Read more] ...