Template:Origin of life From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia vteOrigin of lifeHistory of research Panspermia (5th century BC) Spontaneous generation (4th century BC) Primordial soup (19th century) Prebiotic synthesis Pseudo-panspermia Miller–Urey experiment Formamide-based prebiotic chemistry Alternative abiogenesis scenarios Protocells GADV-protein world Clay hypothesis Iron–sulfur world Primordial sandwich PAH world Peptide-RNA world Quasispecies model RNA world Earliest organisms Earliest known life forms Last universal common ancestor (LUCA) Research Astrobiology Paleobiology