New research rejects 80-year theory of 'primordial soup' as the ...

Courtesy ScienceDaily  Tue, 02/02/2010 - 22:45

For 80 years it has been accepted that early life began in a "primordial soup" of organic molecules before evolving out of the oceans millions of years later.

Today the "soup" theory has been overturned in a pioneering article which claims it was the Earth's chemical energy, from hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor, which kick-started early life.

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