Dunlop, Judge, the noblest Roman of them all, A. E., Arval, the Name Ineffable, in heaven hight
…everyone will agree that there are no restraints against the formation of organic compounds from non-organic reactants. This has been demonstrated since 1952 when Stanley Miller and Harold Urey did their famous experiment. (…) In fact, organic compounds have been found in the oddest places; Titan, nebula, and meteorites.
Now, the question, of course, is how did these disparate pieces come together and form the living system we see today?
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The Miller and Urey experiment was an experiment that simulated hypothetical conditions thought at the time to be present on the early Earth, and tested for the occurrence of chemical origins of life.
Specifically, the experiment tested Oparin’s and Haldane’s hypothesis that conditions on the primitive Earth favored chemical reactions that synthesized organic compounds from inorganic precursors. Considered to be the classic experiment on the origin of life, it was conducted in 1952 and published in 1953.
