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We're all aliens... how humans began life in outer space The mystery of how the building blocks of biology came to be on Earth may finally have been solved

By Steve Connor Tuesday, 1 March 2011

As scientific mysteries go, this is the big one. How did life on Earth begin? Not how did life evolve, but how did it start in the first place? What was the initial spark that lit the fire of evolution?

Charles Darwin solved the mystery of life's wondrous diversity with his theory of natural selection. But even he was flummoxed by the ultimate mystery of mysteries: what led to the origin of life itself?

In trying to answer the problem, scientists have turned to the stars, or at least the "builders' rubble" of meteorites and comets left over from the formation of our solar system some five billion years ago. These space rocks, they believe, could help to explain why life began here on Earth.

Read on... (The Independent)

TAGGED: BIOLOGY, CHEMISTRY, SCIENCE, SPACE