• Question: how did we evolve from nonliving matter?

    Asked by anon-174269 to Yewande, Tim, Melanie, Hayley, Carl, Alex on 15 Jun 2018.
    • Photo: Alex Seeney

      Alex Seeney answered on 15 Jun 2018:

      That’s a really difficult question to try to answer, but that also makes it a really good one! I’ve done a bit of digging, and it looks like scientist think that it’s a process called “abiogenesis”, which would be the creation of life from non-living matter. This process suggests that it may all stem from a single ancient gene, which may have been responsible for the creation of proteins, which are essential for life to begin.

    • Photo: Carl Barford

      Carl Barford answered on 21 Jun 2018:

      Really hard to answer. We know that it is possible to make a “soup” of simple chemicals which can support life, simply by the action of hot rock and the types of gases present on earth billions of years ago. We do not know how they started to start joining up and replicating

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