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You cannot begin by precipitating a lion out of the primeval soup.

Most textbooks give greatest weight to the family of theories based on an organic 'primeval soup'.

Why did those ancient replicators give up the cavalier freedom of the primeval soup and take to swarming in huge colonies?

As soon as the primeval soup provided conditions in which molecules could make copies of themselves, the replicators themselves took over.

It must have started as rudimentary cooperation between self-replicating molecules in the primeval soup (or whatever primeval medium there was).

(The "primeval soup" has long been a catchword for oceans teeming with appropriate organic compounds prior to the origin of life.)

I figure it started in the ocean-they call it the primeval soup or something-and after a while it crawled up on the land, the plants first."

Oparin argued that a "primeval soup" of organic molecules could be created in an oxygenless atmosphere through the action of sunlight.

It so happens that other chemists, supporting more conventional organic 'primeval soup' theories, have long accepted that clay minerals would have been a help.

If some fantastic flash of cosmic light ning had hit the primeval soup and started the whole pot boiling, then here was the equal and opposite reaction.

The panspermia hypothesis does not deny that life started in a 'primeval soup', it merely shows that life can come together in a variety of different ways.

But in general memes resemble the early replicating molecules, floating chaotically free in the primeval soup, rather than modern genes in their neatly paired, chromosomal regiments.

And in that salty fizzing primeval soup of a sea it seems she also picked up traits of kelp and limpet, dolphin and sea otter, and who knows what else.

It is still in its infancy, still drifting clumsily about in its primeval soup, but already it is achieving evolutionary change at a rate that leaves the old gene panting far behind.

Under lightning and harsh sunlight those chemicals merged to stain the young ocean with amino acids, purines, adenylates . . . a "primeval soup" which then reacted still further, building complex, twisting polymers.

As to whether some guiding hand was needed for the process, Dr. de Duve commented: "The answer of modern molecular biology to this much-debated question is categorical: chance, and chance alone, did it all, from primeval soup to man, with only natural selection to sift its effects.

"An astronomer called Fred Hoyle once said that the idea that you could shuffle organic molecules in some primeval soup and, purely by chance, come up with a DNA molecule is about like a whirlwind passing through an aircraft factory and assembling scattered parts into a 747."

Primordial soup, the organic mixture leading to the development of life.

Plants, on the other hand, especially those from water, are a comfort because we believe life originated in the primordial soup.

They were all present in the primordial soup.

Back in Seattle, you asked how you can threaten someone with primordial soup.

A primordial soup of political parties, their militias and tribes filled the void.

It was the fly in the primordial soup.

Scientists have estimated how long it would take to randomly assemble those enzymes from a primordial soup.

It is like dipping your toes into the primordial soup where contemporary urban life first unfolded.

This is why bodies exist, rather than separate replicators still battling it out in the primordial soup.

'We were dinosaurs when Gordon here was just primordial soup,' he agreed.

Each player guides a species of primitive amoeba drifting through the primordial soup.

A game board with spaces representing the primordial soup, a scoring track, and a compass diagram.

As long as scientists thought life had almost a billion years to get started, the relatively passive primordial soup model served their purposes.

A mere flash in the primordial soup.

Once that was done, the oceans became the spawning grounds for embryo life-forms - the primordial soup.

It's just so much synthetic primordial soup."

I always take my primordial soup with a little transubstantiated bread and wine...

He slicked his fingers in the primordial soup between their thighs and brought his fingertips to her mouth.

If it were an accidental change in the laws of nature, we'd most likely just have collapsed into a primordial soup of particles."

They apparently evolved from "primordial soup", and over the course of millions of years, turned into a space-faring species.

Then, other solar systems form from those ashes plus a big dollop of primordial soup (hydrogen and helium).

We, all of us-you, me, the other heavenly hosts, men and women-all came from that same primordial soup.

Back to the primordial soup.

As he remarked, "It may not have been a global primordial soup which was the key to chemical evolution, but the primordial bubble."

Perhaps, in the primordial soup, left and right handedness were in free competition until some small chance advantage became overwhelming through the evolutionary progress.