{"id":306073,"date":"2010-02-09T16:45:40","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T21:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=21886"},"modified":"2010-02-09T16:45:40","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T21:45:40","slug":"is-it-time-to-throw-out-%e2%80%98primordial-soup%e2%80%99-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/306073","title":{"rendered":"Is It Time To Throw Out \u2018Primordial Soup\u2019 Theory?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=123447937\">NPR&#8217;s All Things Considered<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Is the &#8220;primordial soup&#8221; theory \u2014 the idea that life emerged from a prebiotic broth \u2014 past its expiration date?<\/p>\n<p>Biochemist Nick Lane thinks so. The University College London writer and his colleagues argue that the 81-year-old notion just doesn&#8217;t hold water.<\/p>\n<p>Lane tells NPR&#8217;s Guy Raz there&#8217;s another possible explanation for the emergence of life. But before we get to that, why toss out the soup theory?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mbio.ncsu.edu\/JWB\/PrimordialSoup.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/disinfo.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/PrimordialSoup.jpg\" alt=\"Primordial Soup Can\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21887\" height=\"294\" width=\"650\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Lane says the idea of a primordial soup goes back to 1929, and great biologists like J.B.S. Haldane.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He proposed that the Earth&#8217;s early atmosphere was composed of simple gases like methane and ammonia. And they would react together under the influence of ultraviolet rays or lightning to produce a thin &#8217;soup&#8217; \u2014 which became thicker over time \u2014 of organic molecules,&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via NPR&#8217;s All Things Considered: Is the &#8220;primordial soup&#8221; theory \u2014 the idea that life emerged from a prebiotic broth \u2014 past its expiration date? Biochemist Nick Lane thinks so. The University College London writer and his colleagues argue that the 81-year-old notion just doesn&#8217;t hold water. Lane tells NPR&#8217;s Guy Raz there&#8217;s another possible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}