
%0 Journal Article
%A C W Davies, Paul 
%T Was Mars the cradle of life
%J Microbiology Australia
%D 2004/03/01
%V 25
%N 1
%P 16-17
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/MA04116
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/MA04116 
%X The problem of life?s origin remains one of the great outstanding challenges to science. Ever since Charles Darwin mused about a ?warm little pond? incubating life beneath sunny primeval skies, scientists have speculated about the exact location of this transforming event. Nearly a century and a half later, we remain almost completely ignorant of the physical processes that led from a nonliving chemical mixture to the first autonomous organism. 
