Sentences with phrase «replicating early earth»

They will soon begin replicating early Earth chemistry on rocks and analyzing the reaction products with their robotic sampling system.

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In some primordial soup, or slime, or ooze on the early earth, atoms agglomerated into larger and more intricate molecules until self - replicating ones appeared and life began.

Geneticists and information scientists have built and are building models for the transition of organic molecules to self - replicating living organisms, based on theories of Earth's early development provided by astronomers, geologists, and oceanographers and on the evidence of fossilized microorganisms discovered by paleontologists.

Ever since Stanley Miller inaugurated the era of serious research in the origin of life, chemists have been at the forefront of answering the question at the crux of the matter: how did the simple, primordial molecules on an early Earth self - assemble to form self - replicating, robust chemical structures subject to Darwinian natural selection?