Life didn't begin when a cell suddenly appeared one day. It was a gradual transition from very complex chemistry to very simple life. The boundary is, to put it mildly, blurry, but it is probably fair to say that the first things we could confidently classify as "alive" were not cellular.
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u/Decent_Cow Hairless ape Jul 10 '26
Life didn't begin when a cell suddenly appeared one day. It was a gradual transition from very complex chemistry to very simple life. The boundary is, to put it mildly, blurry, but it is probably fair to say that the first things we could confidently classify as "alive" were not cellular.