primeval soup

English

Noun

primeval soup (usually uncountable, plural primeval soups)

The supposed liquid mixture of organic compounds which, under the influence of ultraviolet light, lightning etc., gave rise to the first self-replicating structures and, eventually, to life

Translations

mixture of organic compounds which gave rise to life

Finnish: alkuliemi (fi)

See also

abiogenesis

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