primordial soup

noun

: a mixture of organic molecules in evolutionary theory from which life on earth originated

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At a much earlier time, 380,000 years after the Big Bang, the roiling primordial soup of protons, electrons, and photons cooled enough for the particles to team up and form neutral hydrogen atoms. —

Bydaniel Clery, science.org, 10 Sep. 2024 Or did her mutating account of events generate itself from a primordial soup of liquor, panic, guilt, and conjecture? —

Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 1 July 2024 Hard Science What the famous Miller-Urey experiment got wrong The Miller-Urey experiment showed that the building blocks of life could form in the primordial soup. —

Big Think, 24 June 2024 That blend of geography and history explains the primordial soup that gave birth to Peruvian cuisine. —

Simeon Tegel, Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2024 See all Example Sentences for primordial soup

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First Known Use

1962, in the meaning defined above

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