May 1981 The second point is that Darwin's theory of evolution is silent on the 'origin of living things' – that is, how life on earth began. Darwin himself mused that life could have arisen 'in ...

Scientists have proposed many theories to explain the origin of life. Two stand out: the primordial soup theory and the RNA world hypothesis. Both these theories follow a linear way of thinking by ...

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To explain the remarkable diversity of life histories among species we must understand how evolution shapes organisms to optimize their reproductive success. The principal aim of life history ...

The origin of life on Earth stands as one of the great mysteries of science ... water is much more likely to become a part of solid objects that formed at a greater distance from the sun. To explain ...

Mar. 25, 2025 — Life needs sufficient phosphorus. However, the element is scarce, not only today but also at the time of the origin of life. So where was there sufficient phosphorus four billion ...

The threat to his life's work could hardly have come at ... to study thoroughly—principally with a view to the theory of the origin of species." In April 1848, having saved £100 from his ...

New research suggests “microlightning” exchanges among water droplets in Earth’s early atmosphere may have sparked the ...

An international collaboration has published groundbreaking research, shedding light on the most significant increase in complexity in the history of life's evolution on Earth: the origin of the ...