Monday 5 December 2016

MY COUSIN, MY GASTROENTEROLOGIST (MARK LEYNER) AND THE PRIMORDIAL SOUP

I asked the waitress about the soup du jour and she said that it was primordial soup — which is ammonia and methane mixed with ocean water in the presence of lightning. Oh I'll take a tureen of that embryonic broth, I say, constraint giving way to exuberance — 


The Primordial Soup Theory is problably the best hyphotesis to describe how life started in Earth. This theory was suggested by Russian Oparin in 1920 and tested by Staney Miller thirty years later. Indeed, the text approaches the primordial soup composition: ammonia, methane...there should be hydrogen and water, of course, like in every soup. Staney Miller shaked this soup like if it were a cocktail mixer, he heated it and applied UV radiation to it so that he could obtain amino acids, which are considered to be the life foundations.
The editors team of this blog think it is an appropiate idea to post about soups, specially in this time of the year - when we are always in the mood for soup.

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