正文 19 THE RISE OF LIFE

IN 1953, STANLEY Miller, a graduate student at the Uy of Chicago, took twoflasks—one taining a little water to represent a primeval o, the other holding amixture of methane, ammonia, and hydrogen sulphide gases to represeh’s earlyatmosphere—ected them with rubber tubes, and introduced some electrical sparks as astand-in fhtning. After a few days, the water in the flasks had turned green and yellow iy broth of amino acids, fatty acids, sugars, and anipounds. “If Goddidn’t do it this way,” observed Miller’s delighted supervisor, the Nobel laureate HaroldUrey, “He missed a good bet.”

Press reports of the time made it sound as if about all that was needed now was forsomebody to give the whole a good shake and life would crawl out. As time has shown, itwasn’t nearly so simple. Despite half a tury of further study, we are no osynthesizing life today than we were in 1953 and much further away from thinking we .

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