Primordial soup

The Way Things Turn “But if (and Oh! what a big if!) we could conceive in some warm little pond, with all sorts of ammonia and phosphoric salts, light, heat, electricity, etc., present, that a protein compound was chemically formed ready to...

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Primordial Soup cartoon

A display typeface drawing inspiration from Cambrian era lifeforms. Primordial Soup features elements that reference the claws and carapaces of trilobites, nautiluses, opabinias, and other ancient aquatic critters. It is available as a fully functioning T…

the universe, the planets, the creation of life, whatever... primordial soup

Primordial Soup, Life on Earth

In an ethereal animation by London-based CGI artist Markos Kay, a mysterious world is in the process of forming. “aBiogenesis” reimagines the origin of life in a mesmerizing rendering of the lipid world hypothesis—a theory suggesting that the first self-replicating, cell-like objects were composed of a kind of fatty acid that could not dissolve inContinue reading "‘aBiogenesis’ Reimagines the Primordial Soup Theory in a Mesmerizing Animation by Markos Kay"

The chemical feat strengthens theory that the first life on Earth was based on RNA.

Parts of the primordial soup in which life arose have been maintained in our cells today according to scientists at the University of East Angl