Theories about the Origin of life

Origin of life studies is a limited field of research, despite its profound impact on biology and human understanding of the natural world. Once discarded the creation of life by spontaneous generation, a complex field of work opened to give light to this wonderful enigma: how life appeared on earth? 1St readiness college course students from IES s’Arenal have created this timeline where you can see the main theories that have emerged to know more precisely the origins of life. These theories give us the clues about what we really know from our origins. Click on the autors with an asterisk to watch a short documentary about their life and contribution.

1865-01-01 11:15:40

Hermann Eberhard Friedrich Richter*

Life is present throughout the Universe in the form of microgerms carried on meteors.

1908-01-01 11:15:40

Svante Arrhenius*

The Distribution of Life in Space- The panspermia hypothesis

1924-01-01 11:15:40

Alexander Ivánovich Oparin*

Chemical evolution theory of Life. Organic molecules could be formed from inorganic matter.

1929-01-01 11:15:40

John Burdon Sanderson Haldane

The primitive soup: Independently concurred with Oparin, proposing that oxygen was absent during the origin of life because it would have prevented the formation of important organic molecules.

1953-01-01 11:15:40

Harold Clayton Urey & Stanley Miller*

Prebiotic experiment that confirmed abiogenesis hypothesis

1953-01-01 11:15:40

Harold Clayton Urey & Stanley Miller*

The "building blocks" of life created with inorganic matter.

1953-01-01 11:15:40

Harold Clayton Urey & Stanley Miller*

The classic experiment on the origin of life

1958-01-01 11:15:40

Sidney Walter Fox*

Fox's thermal model: protenoids microspheres. He synthetized a protocell with inorganic molecules and thermal energy.

1970-01-01 11:15:40

Walter Gilbert*

RNA world. RNA might be the first organic complex molecule with auto-replication capacity and, probably, has been the precursor of DNA

1971-01-01 11:15:40

Lynn Margulis*

Endosymbiotic theory: the origin of eukaryotic cells.

1980-01-01 11:15:40

Gunter Wächtershäuser*

The Iron Sulfur World Theory. A biochemical cycle that assembled the first living cell

1986-01-01 11:15:40

Alexander Graham Cairns-Smith*

Clay Origin of Life. The self-replication of clay crystals in solution could have created organic life.

Theories about the Origin of life

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