Talk:Primordial soup

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The contents of Heterotrophic theory was merged into Primordial soup on 18 January 2020. The former page's history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted as long as the latter page exists. For the discussion at that location, see its talk page.

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[Improving the article]

I will be working to improve this article. I will be publishing information periodically. Avazquez-salazar (talk) 00:03, 24 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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To what extent was J.B.S. Haldane involved with creating the theory of Primordial Soup ? CensoredScribe (talk) 23:58, 24 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Haldane was involved in the proposal of the heterotrophic theory of the origin of life. Russian biochemist Alexander Oparin came to the same conclusions about the origin of life. For that reason, the heterotrophic theory is sometimes referred as the Oparin-Haldane theory.Avazquez-salazar (talk) 23:57, 23 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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I am planning on contributing to this page. User:MonroeShindelar/Primordial Soup MonroeShindelar (talk) 21:46, 29 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Your text is good, I hope you come back soon to edit and we can incorporate it into the main article. Avazquez-salazar (talk) 23:59, 23 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Further transformation

This entire section appears to be nothing but uncited WP:SYNTH and WP:OR. I am not convinced of its neutrality right now. "...compounds that would have prohibited..." reads like the person writing the paragraph knows what would have happened on primordial Earth if these unnamed compounds were present. "More fundamentally, it can be argued that the most crucial challenge unanswered by this theory" This is nothing but opinion challenging the primordial soup hypothesis. What "can be argued" is not encyclopedic content. Who says this "challenge" is "unanswered?" I deleted the second paragraph outright, and I think someone needs to watch this article closely for NPOV. There are people with strong personal beliefs concerning this subject. Dcs002 (talk) 06:50, 26 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Noted. I will be watching the article

Avazquez-salazar (talk) 18:45, 24 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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I would like to see a quote from Oparin where he uses the term "primordial soup". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:A61:11C5:301:9CD:19D9:6BF:8C6C (talk) 20:34, 4 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

So what is the primordial soup?

Difficult to find the main explanation-summary of what the primordial soup is. Perhaps would be nice to have a definition of sorts in the first paragraph of the article (for example, what was it, and what molecules it actually consisted of) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 185.253.178.4 (talk) 14:46, 22 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

What does it taste like?

I don’t need sleep, I need answers! 75.172.83.3 (talk) 02:24, 2 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Prebiotic synthesis study

I came across this today & thought it might be useful for someone to weave into the article.

"Primordial Soup: Scientists Discover New "Origins of Life" Chemical Reactions". SciTechDaily. 2022-07-29.
Pulletikurti, Sunil; Yadav, Mahipal; Springsteen, Greg; Krishnamurthy, Ramanarayanan (2022-07-28). "Prebiotic synthesis of α-amino acids and orotate from α-ketoacids potentiates transition to extant metabolic pathways". Nature Chemistry. Springer Science and Business Media LLC. doi:10.1038/s41557-022-00999-w. ISSN 1755-4330.

Peaceray (talk) 19:51, 29 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Bury the lead

Ordinarily, heterotrophic theory would be the big fish, and the smaller, colourful notion of primordial soup would be inside the can.

But due to the thin reed of popular science culture, we've got this upside down and inside out by popular demand. In this instance, the peg of many colours is more famous than the drab coat. So be it. [belated edit]

Primordial soup (also known as prebiotic soup or prebiotic broth) is the hypothetical set of conditions present on the Earth around 3.7 to 4.0 billion years ago.

That's what you expect for bold heads.

It is an aspect of the heterotrophic theory (also known as the Oparin–Haldane hypothesis) concerning the origin of life, first proposed by Alexander Oparin in 1924, and J. B. S. Haldane in 1929.

And so, too, would that be totally what you'd expect for bold heads if this was (more naturally) it's own page.

The piece I just added (after several fumbles) was "(also known as the Oparin–Haldane hypothesis)".

We do need to try to keep all these bold heads intact, even if a bit cluttered visually, because that's the final price of making the peg bigger than the jacket. — MaxEnt 01:01, 14 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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