and does this mean we can recreate this process to manipulate life into whatever we want?
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We have already created life from non-life. Craig Venter and his team first created synthetic life forms by taking the base components of DNA (adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G) and thymine (T)) and combining them into a new synthetic genome and then injecting the genome into the husk of a cell and it started to live. Since then, many researchers have created many other new life forms (mostly bacteria) for research purposes. So it’s certainly something that can be done by humans and if given the right conditions and time nature could as well.
As for how it happened originally, we don’t know for sure, it’s impossible to know the exact conditions of the early earth. That said we can make very educated guesses.
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