There are a couple of different ways that you could potentially have seen this many test tube scenario on early earth. You can imagine having like an RNA pool and an Ellipid pool, et cetera, all close to each other. When it rains or there's some volcanic activity those hot spring pools bubble over and they start intermingling with each other. Those ingredients combine, maybe get sunny again, things dried down and then you can start making what we might call a protor cell.
How did life on Earth start? To help answer that, researchers are trying to create some life for themselves.
This is the second episode in our three-part series, Origins, about the beginnings and boundaries of life on Earth.
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