New research rejects 80-year theory of 'primordial soup' as the origin of life
Wednesday, February 3, 2010 - 07:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
For 80 years it has been accepted that early life began in a 'primordial soup' of organic molecules before evolving out of the oceans millions of years later. Today the 'soup' theory has been over turned in a pioneering paper in BioEssays which claims it was the Earth's chemical energy, from hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor, which kick-started early life...