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Here’s what you will learn when you read this story: Abiogenesis—the emergence of life from nonliving organics—is the leading theory regarding how life spawned on Earth, but it is being questioned.

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The origin of life is surely one of the most important questions in biology. How did inanimate molecules give rise to the ...

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