primeval soup

English

Noun

primeval soup (usually uncountable, plural primeval soups)

1. (biology, evolutionary theory) The supposed liquid mixture of organic compounds which, under the influence of ultraviolet light, lightning etc., gave rise to the first self-replicating structures and, eventually, to life.

Translations

mixture of organic compounds which gave rise to life

• Finnish: alkuliemi (fi)

See also

• abiogenesis