1. This is why bodies exist, rather than separate replicators still battling it out in the primordial soup. 2. But could RNA itself have formed spontaneously and abundantly in the primordial soup? 3. Cosmologists have also calculated the way in which stars, galaxies and clusters of galaxies coalesced from slight ripples in the primordial soup that emerged from the Big Bang. 4. Complex as it is, it is hard to see how it could have sprung full-blown from the primordial soup. 5. Did their ancestors eat our ancestors while we all swam in the primordial soup? 6. For the first time the question of what happens in this kind of primordial organic soup is about to get answered. 7. Lightning storms then stirred the primordial soup and created carbon-rich molecules that organized themselves into self-replicating units, or crude forms of life. 8. Like all linguistic innovations, some verbings catch on and some slink back into the primordial soup of English, waiting for another chance. 9. Out of this primordial soup of the imagination evolved a potent literary brew. 10. The original massage probably took the form of one amoeba bumping into another, in the primordial soup that became life as we know it. |