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(evolutionary theory) The origination of living organisms from lifeless matter; such genesis as does not involve the action of living parents.
Stages in the origin of life range from the well understood, such as the habitable Earth and the abiotic synthesis of simple molecules, to the largely unknown, like the derivation of the last universal common ancestor (LUCA) with its complex molecular functionalities.
(evolutionary theory) The origination of living organisms from lifeless matter; such genesis as does not involve the action of living parents.
NASA's 2015 strategy for astrobiology aimed to solve the puzzle of the origin of life – how a fully functioning living system could emerge from non-living components – through research on the prebiotic origin of life's chemicals, both in space and on planets, as well as the functioning of early biomolecules to catalyse reactions and support inheritance.
(evolutionary theory) The origination of living organisms from lifeless matter; such genesis as does not involve the action of living parents.
The Miller–Urey experiment was a synthesis of small organic molecules in a mixture of simple gases in a thermal gradient created by heating (right) and cooling (left) the mixture at the same time, with electrical discharges.