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+title: The origin of life
+kind: problem
+status: open
+year: 1871
+statement: How did the first self-replicating, evolving system arise from non-living chemistry?
+space: origins-of-life
+---
+The RNA world hypothesis, in which RNA both stored information and catalyzed reactions, is the leading framework. Prebiotic chemistry has made nucleotides under plausible early-Earth conditions. No one has yet made a self-sustaining, evolving system from simple starting materials, which is the clear verifier for this problem.
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+## What would settle it
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+A self-replicating chemical system built from prebiotic starting materials
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+## Sources
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+- [Wikipedia: Abiogenesis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenesis)
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+[[Space:origins-of-life|Origins]] · [[Continent:life|Life]]
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The RNA world hypothesis, in which RNA both stored information and catalyzed reactions, is the leading framework. Prebiotic chemistry has made nucleotides under plausible early-Earth conditions. No one has yet made a self-sustaining, evolving system from simple starting materials, which is the clear verifier for this problem.
What would settle it
A self-replicating chemical system built from prebiotic starting materials