how did life begin? – Relationships Zone

Question: how did life begin?
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Asked by anon-204592 to Sally, Lucy, James, David, Dan on 13 Mar 2019.
- James Munro answered on 13 Mar 2019:
  
  Hey Pratyasha,
  
  No one knows for sure (we weren’t around to check…) but we can make some educated guesses. Every living lifeform today has DNA, which are tiny chains inside every cell of our body which have instructions on how to build our bodies and keep us alive. So if we work out how DNA could happen, we can begin to work out how life began.
  
  Most scientists believe that life happened in small stages, where non-living chemicals and stuff began to make copies of themselves, repair themselves and protect themselves using walls that we call membranes. This probably happened where lots of chemicals pushed against each other near volcanic vents in ancient oceans – but no one is really sure.
  
  You might want to ask this in a different zone too – as this does not have much to do with psychology 🙂
- David Chadwick answered on 13 Mar 2019:
  
  Probably from some micro biological chemical that arrived on a meteor, and found that it could reproduce in our water and air. And after that, millions of years of evolution has led to the complexity of life we know today
- Sally Tilt answered on 13 Mar 2019:
  
  I think it’s great that we can ask a question like this! Can you imagine any other animal on earth, wondering about something similar – it shows how pretty special our brains are that we can think about such abstract questions, not just that, but we can then work out some possible answers – about something that happened so long ago that the world would be unrecognisable to today.
  
  Pretty cool question!
- Dan Taylor answered on 14 Mar 2019:
  
  I think Sally raised a fantastic point! The fact we can ask these questions is fundamentally wonderful, and is one of the ways I think humans are beautifully unique! Definitely says something about how cool our brains are!
- Lucy Maddox answered on 14 Mar 2019:
  
  Great answers here – I haven’t got much wisdom to add I’m afraid.

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