A spark plug can make a spark, but no one would say a spark plug can build a car. In much the same way, a chemical reaction can do one useful job without creating a living cell. Yet new research in Science Advances suggests that simple chemical reactions may help explain how early life arose.1 Although the study is valuable, its results point to a key problem: one chemical step does not explain the origin of a complete liv…
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