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What is Primordial Soup?

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Primordial soup, or prebiotic soup (also sometimes referred to as prebiotic broth), is the hypothetical set of conditions present on the Earth around 4.2 to 4.0 billions of years ago. It is a fundamental aspect of the heterotrophic theory of the origin of life, first proposed by Alexander Oparin and John Burdon Sanderson Haldane in the 1920s.

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