Where did life come from? Following the theory of abiogenesis, scientists propose life may have begun from nonliving matter. But how this process actually occurred is subject to much scientific debate ...

The history of life's evolution from the primordial soup is a long, complex, and winding one. Today, there is a staggering variety of living species, from the smallest bacteria or archaea to the ...

Ultimately, biological complexity is one of the most important things to come out of evolution. Things started simple. Then genes mutated, cells interacted with their environment, mitochondria stopped ...

Abiogenesis is a word used to describe the idea that living organisms may have developed "spontaneously." ie. Abiogenesis tries to sketch a chemical pathway, from a grain of sand to the first living ...

There appears to be widespread belief that an old earth, abiogenesis, common descendant speciation are not compatible with theism and religion (e.g. Christianity,Islam, Judaism etc.) and that ...

Jordi Paps does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

Synthetic biology seeks to probe fundamental aspects of biological form and function by construction (resynthesis) rather than deconstruction (analysis). Here we discuss how such an approach could be ...