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Chemical evolution

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Chemical evolution is a hypothesis which tries to explain how life might possibly develop from non-life (see abiogenesis). Various experiments have been made to show certain aspects of this process, the first ones were done by Stanley L. Miller in the 1950s. For that they are now called Miller experiments.

See also: RNA world hypothesis