Pillar№ 10

Origin of Life

Taught alongside the synthesis: life arose from non-living chemistry.

Chemistry · Biochemistry

Pillar 10  · In preparation

What this pillar will examine

StatusIn preparation

Strictly, the Modern Synthesis begins once life exists. But textbooks teach the origin of life alongside it, so this pillar will examine it on the same terms.

  1. № 10.01“Miller–Urey showed life's building blocks form naturally”In preparation · Chemistry
  2. № 10.02“An RNA world preceded DNA and proteins”In preparation · Biochemistry
  3. № 10.03“Homochirality has a natural explanation”In preparation · Chemistry

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