User:Extremophile/Abiogenesis
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Abiogenesis (Greek a-bio-genesis, "non biological origins") is, in its most general sense, the generation of life from non-living matter. Today the term is primarily used to refer to theories about the chemical origin of life, such as from a primordial soup. Earlier notions of abiogenesis, long discarded by science, are now more commonly known as spontaneous generation, held that living organisms are generated by decaying organic substances, e.g. that mice spontaneously appear in stored grain or maggots spontaneously appear in meat.
Explanation: this is a sketch and/or a source of raw material for improvement of the current abiogenesis article.
It have originally been made to the improvement of the abiogenesis' article of the Wikipedia in Portuguese, so it's not well written.
--Extremophile 04:03, 28 February 2006 (UTC)