What Is The Metabolism-First Hypothesis For The Origin Of life?

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  • Опубліковано 11 жов 2020
  • This animation is published in coordination with the new Nature article: A plausible metal-free ancestral analogue of the Krebs cycle composed entirely of α-ketoacids www.nature.com/articles/s4155...
    The origin of life is still a largely unsolved mystery. In recent years, many scientists have grown convinced that a deeper study of metabolism will reveal important secrets about the origin of life. In this animation you will learn why metabolism is so interesting to these researchers, and what the study of metabolism has revealed about the chemical origin of life so far.
    This animation is published in unison with the Nature paper: A plausible metal-free ancestral analogue of the Krebs cycle composed entirely of α-ketoacids
    For a full list of links to scientific papers and articles related to this animation, visit our website: www.statedclearly.com/videos/...
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  • @StatedClearly
    @StatedClearly  3 роки тому +155

    Welcome to the comment section. Please help cultivate thoughtful conversation here on the topic of the origin of life. All views are welcome, so long as they are presented respectfully to those with opposing views.

    • @michealmotor
      @michealmotor 3 роки тому +2

      Please can you talk about radiation

    • @StatedClearly
      @StatedClearly  3 роки тому +6

      ​@itsasin1969 It would be hard to do a video on that because scientists really haven't figured much out about consciousness. For a good recent overview of where we are on that mystery, see Annaka Harris' book 'Conscious'.

    • @StatedClearly
      @StatedClearly  3 роки тому +3

      @@michealmotor Are you wanting to learn what radiation is or how it effects our bodies?

    • @fuzzylumpkin8030
      @fuzzylumpkin8030 3 роки тому +1

      Stated Clearly damn new subject for me to study thanks🙄👍

    • @cristian0523
      @cristian0523 3 роки тому

      @itsasin1969 ua-cam.com/video/H6u0VBqNBQ8/v-deo.html Kurzgesagt video is worth watching

  • @moazzhussain6720
    @moazzhussain6720 3 роки тому +299

    I love how the animator actually tells us how he drew the images. I always thought that most the animators are just lazy and don't want t show the details. This right here is a dedicated man. He deserves a big fat raise.

  • @dustinsmith8341
    @dustinsmith8341 3 роки тому +195

    As a biochemist who has always been interested in the origins of life and prebiotic chemistry. I absolutely love this series!

    • @Upstreamprovider
      @Upstreamprovider 3 роки тому +4

      Then have you read the Origin and Nature of Life on Earth: the Emergence of the Fourth Geosphere by Eric Smith and Harold Morowitz? It is quite "mindblowing" in it's detail and scope. Thoroughly recommended.

    • @proculusjulius7035
      @proculusjulius7035 3 роки тому +1

      @Trying to make sense haha yeah or that a clay like doll can be brought to life and then another being made from a rib of said doll. Nothing imaginary about that. Totally logical.

    • @buddha5446
      @buddha5446 3 роки тому

      @Trying to make sense Nice fallacy of oversimplification. Question, do you even know what evolution is?

    • @hosoiarchives4858
      @hosoiarchives4858 3 роки тому +2

      Abiogenesis of life is not possible

    • @Programm4r
      @Programm4r 3 роки тому +4

      @@hosoiarchives4858 Correct - matter and energy cannot create life.

  • @Gaumukh
    @Gaumukh 3 роки тому +61

    As a nurse, i found your videos so useful. You take us to a basic level of learning which is so important if we want to know how things work.

  • @wolfgangouille
    @wolfgangouille 3 роки тому +228

    This generation doesn't realize how lucky it is to have this kind of material accessible online.

    • @davidgustavsson4000
      @davidgustavsson4000 3 роки тому +37

      This generation doesn't realize how lucky it is to have metabolism.

    • @wolfgangouille
      @wolfgangouille 3 роки тому +27

      @@davidgustavsson4000 yes, I don't know how people lived before it was invented.

    • @ansuz5903
      @ansuz5903 3 роки тому +24

      @@davidgustavsson4000 Back in my day we didn't have this newfangled metabolism. We broke our food apart with our bare hands.

    • @evamkaushik5392
      @evamkaushik5392 3 роки тому +2

      I do and I feel so alone in this

    • @komikron7235
      @komikron7235 2 роки тому

      Ever since humans started progressing so rapidly no generation could fully comprehend the world there ancestors green up in

  • @notnilc2107
    @notnilc2107 3 роки тому +200

    Commenting for the youtube algorithm cus I like your stuff.

  • @justgivemethetruth
    @justgivemethetruth 3 роки тому +26

    I'm mesmerized by how human beings ever figured all of this stuff out ... it is awe inspiring. Fantastic video.

  • @johnh6524
    @johnh6524 3 роки тому +64

    I teach Biology and have to cover the RNA world hypothesis. I found this interesting and will be sharing with my students.

    • @solar0wind
      @solar0wind 3 роки тому +1

      Check out the game EteRNA. It's a game that let's you play with RNA and potentially help medicine. It's fun for everyone who likes to solve puzzles, so maybe your students would be interested!

    • @johncgibson4720
      @johncgibson4720 3 роки тому +1

      Yeah, but this metabolism first theory is harder to understand because it is less obvious how evolutionary happens with this thing alone. It almost requires RNA along the ride.

  • @petercoderch589
    @petercoderch589 2 роки тому +7

    Of all the many theories of abiogenesis(the Lipid World, the RNA World, the Hydrothermal Vent Protocell theory, the hypercycles theory, etc), this is hands down the most plausible. I actually read the full paper by that German chemist, and it is an absolutely stunning work of brilliance. It is, however, a very gratting read. You need 4 years of university-level knowledge of organic chemistry to even begin understanding it. He goes on in exactly detail, step-by-step how all the necessary components form, and then lays it down brillianty how it all comes together, over a billion years, to form the first procaryotic cell ever, living in a volcanic lake and feeding off methane.

  • @lectrix8
    @lectrix8 3 роки тому +12

    Taking a genetics class this semester and the molecular biology part is fascinating but very dense with information. This series is actually giving me a conceptual framework that has helped me anchor many new concepts as I relate them the ideas presented here in my mind.

  • @KohuGaly
    @KohuGaly 3 роки тому +113

    There's a bit of a confusion regarding the topic of abiogenesis and how it is presented. The various "[insert blank]-first" hypotheses are often presented as strictly mutually exclusive, when only their most extreme forms are exclusive. In reality, they are probably all partially true. The real debate is about how big of a contribution each of these proposed processes had on the overall processes of abiogenesis.
    For example, we simply don't know how big of a role these sorts of primordial metabolisms played. The tar paradox may be only apparent paradox and the extra "junk" in the sludge doesn't hinder formation of life at all, no metabolism necessary. Alternatively, the tar paradox might be real and metabolism is necessary. Or it could be anything in between. We simply don't know yet.

    • @dragoxl5
      @dragoxl5 3 роки тому +2

      Which is why these are hypotheses to be tested and reiterated on. They're trying to figure it out and this is the best way how.

    • @gelatinocyte6270
      @gelatinocyte6270 3 роки тому +5

      To me, the Miller-Urey experiment doesn't really simulate an environment at all; just the ancient earth atmosphere. It might be missing certain environmental or climatic forces that could selectively concentrate building blocks of life. I was thinking of an experiment that combines the atmospheric simulation of the Miller-Urey experiment with minerals and tidal waves that emulates certain earth environments.

    • @KohuGaly
      @KohuGaly 3 роки тому +6

      @@gelatinocyte6270 I'm pretty sure such experiments were done. Millwe-Urey experiment is so famous because it was the first experiment of this kind. Today is almost half a century later.

    • @alanthompson8515
      @alanthompson8515 3 роки тому +2

      @@KohuGaly Um, 1952 is almost three quarters, not half.

    • @KohuGaly
      @KohuGaly 3 роки тому +4

      @@alanthompson8515 wow... time flies...

  • @shelledreptile5626
    @shelledreptile5626 3 роки тому +45

    Thanks Jon The video is informative and Great, you did a great Job illustrating the subject..♥️♥️♥️

  • @paulcooper8818
    @paulcooper8818 3 роки тому +4

    This idea is completely new to me, a very interesting proposal for expanding the (over dramatic) crucible of life.

  • @SciBugs
    @SciBugs 3 роки тому +8

    This was awesome Jon! I love these videos on early-pre-life stuff. Really helps to put everything into perspective =)

    • @alrichs8146
      @alrichs8146 3 роки тому +1

      Hi I strongly disagree with the content. Most of the effort goes to only cartoon illustrations. It has never been observed that life started spontaneously from non-life. If (huge if) we can somehow make life from non-life that would only prove it takes intelligence to make life.
      I was taught evolution in school, but as I grew older I realized that the points used to support that this world is not designed are plain lies only in the imagination.
      Here are some questions that I hope will make people think
      1) What evolved first the blood or veins?
      2) What evolved first the bones tendons or mussels?
      3) What evolved first the skin or inner organs?
      4) If we have rock layers of different ages, where does fresh young rock come from? (perhaps the new moon?)
      5) If life started only once in very specific conditions are we are all inbred cannibals, or if life started more than once what stopped it from happening?
      6) Why did some life forms decide to work together and others to kill each other?
      7) How many of the questions did you answer using only your imagination with absolutely zero practical evidence in real life?

    • @trisapient
      @trisapient 3 роки тому

      @@alrichs8146(5) If we descended from Adam and Eve aren't we all Inbreds according to your beliefs?!?!

    • @alrichs8146
      @alrichs8146 3 роки тому +1

      ​@@trisapient Yes but we are not inbred cannibals nor related to monkeys. If evolution is true all life is inbred and everything that eats is a cannibal (single common ancestor).
      There is no evidence of any life coming from nonlife by itself even once.

    • @alrichs8146
      @alrichs8146 3 роки тому +1

      ​@@trisapient If all life shares a common ancestor, all life is inbred and everything that eats is a cambial.
      If all life does not share a common ancestor, the "evolution tree of life" is a lie.
      Take your pick.

    • @clovebeans713
      @clovebeans713 Рік тому +2

      @@alrichs8146 1) Blood evolved first, early organisms had coeloms filled with blood like nourishing fluid which was recycled without proper 'plumbing' so to speak
      2) Muscles evolved first which is evident when you see invertebrates like Cephalopods, arthropods all have Muscles without bone, bones evolved from cartilage in vertebrates/chordates and tendons are just fibrous part of muscle that attaches to a structure.
      3) Depending on your definition skin evolved first but at that time it also did the functions of inner organs like in case of sponges, it's only later that endoderm/inner germ layer begins to differentiate into inner organs and division of labor occurs
      4) Clearly you haven't heard of recycling of earth's crust. New rock is formed from volcanic activity/ tectonic activity I.e igneous rock and also from weathering of old rocks I.e sedimentary rocks. Crust is constantly destroyed and created with the movement of Tectonic plates, inner older rocks get melted to form magma when crust is pushed under into mantle and then come out as lava due to eruptions and volcanic activity forming new rock between tectonic plates. Layers are created from sediments which harden into rock under pressure I.e metamorphic rock.
      5)??? No not the case as anybody beyond your 5th cousin could be considered a genetic stranger, it's like asking if tea is a soup, you are reaching here, this is a stretch and any more of it you will receive an Olympic medal for gymnastics.
      6) Well you'll be surprised to hear animals help each other to kill each other (wolf pack) helping and killing are not mutually exclusive. No one just 'decided', you phrased the question as if it was a moral decision. Life will try to fill all niches it can, there are hundreds of parasites that have entire life cycles dedicated to exclusivly live inside human eyeball, brain, flesh and genitals. No organism just woke up one day to make a conscious moral choice between helping or killing, any action that increases capability of reproducing would just be more common in the next generation.
      7) You probably aren't asking for a genuine answer here.

  • @deanna1410
    @deanna1410 3 роки тому +2

    I can't believe it took me a week to realize this was here. This is the only channel for which I have the alarm bell on! I've never even come close to being tempted to want that on before. I'm going to go searching for a patreon for you and if you don't have one, make one because I'll subscribe.

  • @rumraket38
    @rumraket38 3 роки тому +2

    Very well done intro to a subject with a complicated history that seem to only lately(within the last 10-15 years) have garnered serious attention in the origin of life research community.

  • @desiderata8811
    @desiderata8811 3 роки тому +3

    What a great way to tell science news.subscribed.

  • @SirCharles12357
    @SirCharles12357 3 роки тому +2

    I'd like to see a deep dive into photosynthesis! Also, the reason life (in general) chose the 22 amino acids from which to produce all the thousands of proteins. Love the summaries and animations!!

    • @gelatinocyte6270
      @gelatinocyte6270 3 роки тому

      My first reply was deleted for some reason, here's a suggestion though
      ua-cam.com/video/jlO8NiPbgrk/v-deo.html
      Edit: now that this one works, I'll just recreate my first reply:
      _How about this: [same link as above]_
      _It's an animation of Photosystem II (”first step” of photosynthesis) down to its atoms_

  • @Error404fucknickname
    @Error404fucknickname 3 роки тому

    You deserved so many more subscribers and viewers, I love this channel!

  • @czar2230
    @czar2230 Рік тому

    Wow!! I just discovered this channel - absolutely amazing how you break this topic down and distill very complex concepts into understandable media. You are a great educator. The animations and graphics are so fantastic!!! Thank you!!!

  • @darkdenver1
    @darkdenver1 2 роки тому +3

    Those who enjoyed this animation might like to read Spontaneous Order and the Origin of Life, a popular science version of the profound Smith/Morowitz text on the subject.

  • @maylingng4107
    @maylingng4107 3 роки тому +3

    *A giant step on the road of total understanding of abiogenesis. (from Protocells to DNA)*
    What is protocell? A protocell (or protobiont) is a self-organized, endogenously ordered, spherical collection of lipids proposed as a stepping-stone toward the origin of life. A longer definition is supplied by several biology books:
    “The protocell includes two or more RNA replicases which are able to make copies of each other. Concurrent with RNA replication, the vesicle membrane grows through the addition of fatty acids from micelle collisions. This causes the surface area of the protocell to increase while the volume remains constant, resulting in the elongation and increased instability of the protocell membrane. The membrane eventually divides, forming two daughter protocells, with the RNA replicases randomly divided between them.”
    The protocell is very important as it relates to genetic material, which from the protocell gets transferred to living cells and is known as DNA. DNA evolves into RNA and then to functional proteins. This appears to be a paradox, because RNA is less stable form of DNA (it is sort of going backwards), however this confirms the RNA World hypothesis. (The RNA hypothesis deals with the pre-biotic world where there are RNA molecules present, which are precursor to life. RNA molecules are able to replicate themselves and are also capable of protein synthesis. Also co-existed with ribozymes, which are catalytic RNA. ) Because DNA goes back to a less stable and less advanced form or a simpler version of itself (RNA) then goes from there to proteins, we can safely conclude the RNA was the first genetic material on earth.
    Later (perhaps much later) DNA has evolved from this RNA. DNA is a more advanced form of RNA because DNA is double stranded (RNA is single stranded), which is more stable. So this is the explanation of how functional protein is made, by DNA returning (seemingly backwards) to RNA; to pick up the first genetic material. At this stage the RNA acts as a “middle man”. This is the beginning of the actual living cells.

  • @claytonharting9899
    @claytonharting9899 11 місяців тому +2

    Thanks for making this video! I hadn’t even heard of this hypothesis before and it was really cool to learn about :)
    So the idea of metabolism-first is that life didn’t need to start as a self-replicating molecule, and could’ve instead started even simpler, as a molecule helping to support the conditions that caused it to come into existence in the first place? That’s very interesting. That implies that we might not be descended from that first molecule, and instead from a molecule that that class of molecules indirectly helped support the creation of. That’s really interesting!

  • @Hyumanity
    @Hyumanity 3 роки тому +2

    Human reasoning can sometimes be so elegant and beaautifullll. Lovely!

  • @albertmarti2718
    @albertmarti2718 3 роки тому +3

    Nice video, loved the animation. I wrote an essay on the topic a few months ago and really dug through the literature. Maybe you could consider doing a long video on it because there really is so much stuff out there. For anyone interested, look into the work of Bill Martin and Nick Lane, great place to start in my opinion, but after all most stuff on the origin of life is opinion :)

  • @_ninthRing_
    @_ninthRing_ 3 роки тому +6

    I suspect that the more we learn about simpler, less sophisticated forms of prokaryotic life, the more we'll be able to understand both the environment in which early life flourished & perhaps clarify which sequence of evolutionary stages would result in the modern Eukaryotic metabolism.

  • @Sclark2006
    @Sclark2006 Місяць тому +1

    Watching again after a couple of years and still finding as stunning as the first time I watched it. An amazing job.

  • @redpower6956
    @redpower6956 3 роки тому

    Amazing video as usual! Please never stop doing these amazing videos. Thank you.

  • @AbeDillon
    @AbeDillon 3 роки тому +3

    6:41 "evolutionary logic tells us that widely shared traits are probably the oldest"
    This makes some sense for genetic traits because of the way genes are copied and the odds of convergent evolution producing two very similar sequences of genetic material are astronomically low, however; I don't think this logic holds for many metabolic cycles.
    As I understand it, most processes in a cell occur stochastically. For instance: enzymes wait for their reactants to bump into them before performing their function. It helps that inter-molecular forces are so strong at the scale of biochemistry (things tend to snap together like magnets when they fit), but the rate of the reaction can be controlled by increasing thermal energy (the rate of molecules bumping into each-other) and the concentrations of the relevant molecules (e.g. the reactants and enzymes). This means that in prokaryotic cells, if you want to up-regulate a process by increasing the concentration of reactants or whatever, you necessarily down-regulate other processes because increasing the concentration of X necessarily dilutes the concentration of Y. You can't encapsulate processes within their own vesicle and regulate concentrations independently like in eukaryotes.
    That means that evolution will be constantly in a tug of war with itself because if you want to get better at one function, it'll almost always come at the expense of others. If an organism evolved near a hydro-thermal vent and developed metabolic paths to suite that environment, then started developing other metabolic paths that led it to stray away from the hydro-thermal vent, the offspring that continue to develop the secondary metabolic pathway would probably do so at the expense of metabolic paths that allowed it to live near hydro-thermal vents.
    Still, there are some metabolic paths that would remain generally beneficial, like synthesizing amino acids, nucleic acids, and fatty acids.

  • @philsmith7398
    @philsmith7398 3 роки тому +3

    I recommend everyone read a few of Bill Martin's (Düsseldorf Uni) published articles for the latest, most coherent model.

  • @akashita
    @akashita 3 роки тому +2

    Thanks for taking the time to parse all this complex information and _state it clearly_ for us! (nope, I do not regret it)

  • @andrewgroves8611
    @andrewgroves8611 3 роки тому

    Thank you for being honest and not deceptive.

  • @flywire76
    @flywire76 3 роки тому +29

    I can’t believe this guy! He doesn’t even hide the fact that he’s a NASA shill! It’s Stated Clearly right there at the beginning of the video!
    But seriously, great video John. Thanks for your great work. 🙌👏🙌👏🙌👏

    • @nocare
      @nocare 3 роки тому +7

      It's obviously a joke but wouldnt the fact that its show clearly at the begining mean he isn't a shill because by definition shills hide the source of their revenue.

    • @red2theelectricboogaloo961
      @red2theelectricboogaloo961 3 роки тому

      @@nocare i guess.

    • @nocare
      @nocare 3 роки тому +1

      @@red2theelectricboogaloo961 The point of the comment was to point out that most people who cry shill don't know what it means.

    • @red2theelectricboogaloo961
      @red2theelectricboogaloo961 3 роки тому

      @@nocare ok?

  • @TalkBeliefs
    @TalkBeliefs 3 роки тому +3

    A new Stated Clearly is always an event!

  • @avikadhikary1919
    @avikadhikary1919 3 роки тому +1

    My goodness. So much work in one video. ❤️❤️.

  • @IgasBakery
    @IgasBakery 3 роки тому +1

    I love your channel and I learnt a lot, but you definitely need to upload more often.

  • @pauljs75
    @pauljs75 3 роки тому +3

    Sometimes I wonder if the amount of energy put into sustained heavy agitation of a mixing process doesn't get factored into the potential chemical mixing to allow for abiogenesis. Look at what happens with waves hitting coastal rocks, waterfalls, or steam jets around volcanic or geothermal activity. A lot of turbulent churn that can erode faces away exposing new material, and do things like aeration that would permeate some oily film, and rapidly change conditions between icy cold and scalding hot. Just allowing something to bubble in a lab with the only input being modest heat and a magnetic stirrer may not be enough in terms of dynamic input into a chemical process. I wonder if anyone has tried a more "crazy" lab setup while attempting to figure this out?

    • @gelatinocyte6270
      @gelatinocyte6270 3 роки тому

      Yeah. I was imagining a variation of the Miller-Urey experiment that *also* simulate those environments. Maybe there's also a natural process that filters out the junk from bioactive compounds that we didn't account for, right? The water in that old experiment was stagnant so of course tar would build up, right?

  • @100weirdnessbyvolume8
    @100weirdnessbyvolume8 3 роки тому +3

    Hi Jon, I used to have a poster on my wall of all the chemical pathways of life when I studied zoology many years ago. Your chart looks even more complex, where have you taken it from?

    • @pokoirlyase5931
      @pokoirlyase5931 3 роки тому +2

      The source is within the video

    • @gelatinocyte6270
      @gelatinocyte6270 3 роки тому

      Just type ”metabolic pathways” or ”human metabolism” on image search and it will show up in one of the first few results

  • @nekhrunoblivion
    @nekhrunoblivion 3 роки тому +1

    Epic. Thank you for your content, is always very informative.

  • @judeangione3732
    @judeangione3732 3 роки тому +1

    So clear. Thanks. Your illustrations are great.

  • @finnberuldsen4798
    @finnberuldsen4798 3 роки тому +9

    Loved the video, why couldn't there be 'extinct' metabolic reactions which helped give rise to the ones we see today? Why do we think we would be likely to see those fossils at all?

    • @Upstreamprovider
      @Upstreamprovider 3 роки тому +1

      Origin and Nature of Life on Earth: the Emergence of the Fourth Geosphere by Eric Smith and Harold Morowitz might help....

    • @gelatinocyte6270
      @gelatinocyte6270 3 роки тому +1

      I don't think you can see literal fossils of extinct metabolic pathways

    • @daniellewilson8527
      @daniellewilson8527 3 роки тому +2

      The “fossils” refer to pathways that are shared by even the most distant forms of life, and are thus likely the oldest pathways

    • @daniellewilson8527
      @daniellewilson8527 3 роки тому

      @Linda Lo it’s more like: macromolecules are made when amino acids combine, proteins are made, nuclei acids make RNA/DNA, phospholipids are formed, making membranes, inside of which reactions continued. Watch Stated Clearly’s other videos to get more details about how life likely originated, such as the RNA hypothesis, the video about Abiogenesis, the video about how membranes form without a cell being present, the video about DNA, and more

    • @daniellewilson8527
      @daniellewilson8527 3 роки тому

      @Linda Lo the things I’m talk8ng about are chemistry too

  • @travelers8607
    @travelers8607 3 роки тому +16

    Serious question:
    Would this suggest then that something like what we see in the TCA is a common evolutionary route for physical chemistry to take within such early planetary environments as those we've predicted? (i.e. sorta analogous to water repeatedly taking the "easiest" routes down a mountain, rather than the "hardest")
    If so, would this then suggest that, hypothetically speaking, currently-undiscovered extraterrestrial life could likely have developed something similar to our 4-base nucleotide structure?

    • @pokoirlyase5931
      @pokoirlyase5931 3 роки тому +7

      If extraterrestrial life is carbon-based like us, there is a high chance we would be metabolically (and this means physiologically and anatomically very similar). If there is indeed a "minimal metabolism", then there is no reason to believe that it'd evolved very differently than ours. We can even expect some form of convergent evolution in multicellualr organisms as they would have both a similar starting point and a relatively similar environment. The real alien life forms, as in "unrecognizable" as life or truly philosophically alien, will be non-carbon-based life (e.g. silicon, tungsten, plasma .. etc) as their starting point and their environment will be extremely different

    • @aleksandersuur9475
      @aleksandersuur9475 3 роки тому +2

      Now wouldn't that be a neat trick, correctly predicting what xenobiology must be like, before you find any. But no, I don't think you can squeeze a prediction of RNA or DNA out of metabolism first hypothesis, rather that's what RNA first hypothesis would predict I think. At best you can conclude from metabolism first that there must be some common metabolic pathway all life first used to power itself.

    • @hosoiarchives4858
      @hosoiarchives4858 3 роки тому

      Abiotic genesis of life is not possible

    • @johntillman6068
      @johntillman6068 3 роки тому +3

      ​@@hosoiarchives4858 Of course it's possible. Even in today's world with so much complex life, sub-living organic molecules, compounds and mobile genetic elements, such as viruses, viroids, transposons and plastids, still exist alngside cellular organisms, not to mention prions, rogue proteins. The constituent monomer compounds of life self-assemble naturally in a variety of environments, including on asteroids, which we know from meteorites.
      Even short chains (oligomers) of RNA and amino acids (peptides) arise spontaneously. That, over hundreds of millions of years, with trillions of reactions per second under various concentrated conditions, these oligomers would polymerize into stable nucleic acids and proteins (polypeptides) is highly likely.
      Many abiotic catalysts (enzymes) to facilitate polymerization (formation of long chains) exist, and, as noted, Fairly short RNA sequences are capable of both enzymatic and information storage. Same goes for remarkably short peptides. The smallest biologically active protein known today contains only 20 amino acids, found in gila monster saliva. Even shorter functional peptides exist.

    • @hosoiarchives4858
      @hosoiarchives4858 3 роки тому

      @@johntillman6068 Great story. Show me a partially constructed cell rising abiotically. I will wait here.

  • @nikolapetrovicpopovic2993
    @nikolapetrovicpopovic2993 3 роки тому

    I am completely speechless. Thank you for this great video.

  • @micatlan
    @micatlan 3 роки тому +1

    it is a real pleasure to watch these videos, thank you. I wish similar things could be done for other arcane subjects.

  • @davidmurphy563
    @davidmurphy563 3 роки тому +19

    Can you imagine if they were successful? It would be perhaps the most significant breakthroughs of all time.
    Where would it leave religious creation stories?

    • @romanski5811
      @romanski5811 3 роки тому +2

      This reminds me of Dr. Ramachandran and the split-brain atheist/believer patient. You should give it a watch.

    • @jashak9291
      @jashak9291 3 роки тому +1

      they'd figure out a way around that

    • @vealck
      @vealck 3 роки тому +16

      Religion is also self - replicating information that uses its hosts to replicate in other hosts. It also mutates, as the replication is never perfect, and also evolves, competes with other strains, finds environmental niches and so on. It's not even entirely abiotic, as it uses living hosts' nervous cells to perform all those functions. In a way, it's somewhere on the boundary of life and inanimate stuff, inevitably drawing parallels with viruses. Just built from memes instead of genes.

    • @imaginativeskydadytm1389
      @imaginativeskydadytm1389 3 роки тому

      @@vealck so religion are like prion.

    • @Aurora-oe2qp
      @Aurora-oe2qp 3 роки тому +5

      Well, religious creation stories are surely out of the door already, aren't they? I mean, there's no way it actually happened like any of the religions say it did, considering evolution, big bang, a bunch of other galaxies existing and basically all we know about the world, really. Not a single smart religious person would actually believe in the religious creation stories as more than just a metaphor.

  • @rs5352
    @rs5352 3 роки тому +5

    I hate to say it but that was stated clearly.

  • @michalchik
    @michalchik 3 роки тому +1

    Well done. This is the best intro to metabolism first that I've seen. I would have liked to see a little bit more about the details of some of the biochemical processes such as volcanic mineral catalysis chemical reaction that would have made the video longer oh, and perhaps misleading with respect to the diversity of hypotheses.

  • @kapnkerf2532
    @kapnkerf2532 3 роки тому

    Some of the best science videos on UA-cam!!!

  • @SaeedNeamati
    @SaeedNeamati 3 роки тому +8

    what is the map at 1:05 and where can I find it?

    • @Zift_Ylrhavic_Resfear
      @Zift_Ylrhavic_Resfear 3 роки тому +1

      I think that googling what's written on the bottom left corner at that time of the video will find it for you.
      Alternatively, you could check the description and follow the link about "a full list of links to scientific papers and articles related to this animation".

    • @fiftycent889
      @fiftycent889 3 роки тому +1

      www.differencebetween.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Difference-Between-Metabolism-and-Digestion_Figure-2.jpg

    • @moazzhussain6720
      @moazzhussain6720 3 роки тому +1

      There you go buddy:
      commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Human_Metabolism_-_Pathways.jpg

  • @WarmWeatherGuy
    @WarmWeatherGuy 3 роки тому +6

    1:31 The law of evolution has 3 parts, you left out one.
    Heritability + Variation + Differential Reproductive Success = Evolution
    or simply
    Heritability + Variation + Selection = Evolution

    • @HansLemurson
      @HansLemurson 3 роки тому +3

      Selection often happens automatically. So long as there are finite resources, then some patterns will be able to take over a larger share of those. But yes, it does need to be mentioned, since without selection your variety of forms are just "distinctions without a difference".

    • @adamkun5524
      @adamkun5524 3 роки тому

      Heritability + Variation + Reproduction = Evolution. Selection surely helps, but strictly speaking not required.

  • @dangthatscool1
    @dangthatscool1 3 роки тому +1

    Y'all do wonderful work. Keep it up!

  • @c64cosmin
    @c64cosmin 3 роки тому

    This was such a great watch, thank you for this!

  • @guillermobrand8458
    @guillermobrand8458 3 роки тому +3

    Great evolutionary leaps
    Reproduction
    Clustering (multicellular)
    Brain
    Reason, Conscience, Being

    • @Zift_Ylrhavic_Resfear
      @Zift_Ylrhavic_Resfear 3 роки тому +3

      Reproduction : ua-cam.com/video/ergfPuZz9-0/v-deo.html
      Clustering : www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-39558-8
      Brain : there are many examples of living animals with rudimentary brain, i'm not sure what the "leap" is here.
      Conscience : ua-cam.com/video/ergfPuZz9-0/v-deo.html (same video as reproduction)

  • @whoneverknow9588
    @whoneverknow9588 3 роки тому +3

    " it MIGHT be doable?" .... huh ?

  • @myperspective5091
    @myperspective5091 3 роки тому

    Thanks for up dating us and keeping us informed.
    👍🙂👍
    I always found this subject to be fascinating

  • @danielliu9616
    @danielliu9616 3 роки тому +2

    Metabolomics researcher here. Loveee your video

  • @trippwhitener9498
    @trippwhitener9498 2 роки тому +3

    There is no such thing as a simple cell.

    • @spatrk6634
      @spatrk6634 2 роки тому +6

      not today no.
      but couple billion years ago there were
      simplest cell you see today is a product of 3+ billion years of evolution.
      so ofcourse its not simple today

    • @roberttormey4312
      @roberttormey4312 Рік тому

      @@spatrk6634 there were plenty of cells 3.8 Billion years ago that were every bit as sophisticated as cells today

    • @spatrk6634
      @spatrk6634 Рік тому

      @@roberttormey4312 which means that life arisen earlier than 3.8 billion years.
      like 4.3
      can you name some of those plenty of cells that are as complex as today cells?

    • @AlbertaGeek
      @AlbertaGeek Рік тому +2

      @@roberttormey4312 Prove it.

    • @nekiddo
      @nekiddo 2 місяці тому

      @@AlbertaGeek he's been quite silent

  • @JungleJargon
    @JungleJargon 3 роки тому +4

    Darwin never "clearly showed" anything. He didn't even know if evolution was true, himself. To be sure, no one has ever shown any process of evolution ever taking place. It is only believed by those who don't want to have cause of everything being contingent on a Creator of every physical thing even though that is what all of the scientific evidence shows.

    • @hammalammadingdong6244
      @hammalammadingdong6244 2 роки тому +10

      Haha. You complain of a alleged lack of evidence from biology, and then in the next sentence appeal to a magic invisible supernatural creator that no one can observe.
      Irony so think you can cut it with a chainsaw.

    • @JungleJargon
      @JungleJargon 2 роки тому

      @@hammalammadingdong6244 Apparently you are unaware of the contingency factor.

    • @hammalammadingdong6244
      @hammalammadingdong6244 2 роки тому +5

      @@JungleJargon - apparently you are unaware of the mountains of evidence- including directly observed speciation- that confirms evolution.

    • @JungleJargon
      @JungleJargon 2 роки тому

      @@hammalammadingdong6244 What speciation is there when none of the supposed common ancestors even exist? You can’t get written instructions that aren’t there.

    • @spatrk6634
      @spatrk6634 2 роки тому +2

      @@JungleJargon hahah nice make belief world

  • @DrReginaldFinleySr
    @DrReginaldFinleySr 3 роки тому

    Intriguing. Wow! There is just so much to learn. Thank you for sharing.

  • @stromboli2131
    @stromboli2131 3 роки тому +1

    There was a lot of things in this video I couldn't understand. Mostly just specifics and different terms. The pictures and animations allowed me to understand the concept of what you were saying though. It was a great video.

  • @mannyespinola
    @mannyespinola 3 роки тому +1

    Thank you for this very stimulating video

  • @kaineskeptic6484
    @kaineskeptic6484 3 роки тому +1

    This was interesting, I was skeptical of metabolism first however this was an eye opener.

  • @bujinkanatori
    @bujinkanatori 2 місяці тому +1

    I think this is the most exciting video you have evwr made.

  • @prithviprakash1110
    @prithviprakash1110 3 роки тому +2

    Thank you for these incredible videos, I really learn so much from you.
    Please do keep them coming.
    As someone who's in the CS field actively researching AI and Machine Learning I strongly believe that the insights we unearth from studying Biological systems could one day help us simulate true intelligence.

    • @StatedClearly
      @StatedClearly  3 роки тому +3

      I agree. I've been super interested in the Lex Fridman podcast where he discusses this sort of thing with biologists and computer scientists.

  • @flipadavis
    @flipadavis 3 роки тому +1

    One of my favorite books that tackles this topic is Life Ascending by Nick Lane. A little bit of understanding of the basics of cellular biology and chemistry are required but it is ultimately written for laypeople like me.

  • @JustinElkinsII
    @JustinElkinsII Рік тому

    THANK YOU! Great presentation.

  • @zcuttlefish
    @zcuttlefish 3 роки тому

    Nice work. Your content deserves more exposure.

  • @spacemonk26
    @spacemonk26 3 роки тому +2

    Wow nice thanks for explaining, this is definitely a very reasonable and convincing theory of life
    The animation at 5:53 really made it all come together for me in a way I could understand
    What I was confused about is what is the "tar paradox"? That was mentioned around the end of the video but I didn't pick up on what that was if you said it earlier in the video

  • @jbwaits1973
    @jbwaits1973 3 роки тому

    Another great video. Thanks. Really cool topic.

  • @danielbatanau2700
    @danielbatanau2700 3 роки тому

    Thank you for sharing the papers in the video!

  • @SqwarkParrotSpittingFeathers
    @SqwarkParrotSpittingFeathers 3 роки тому +1

    Thanks for the vid. Very informative.

  • @christopherliu3981
    @christopherliu3981 3 роки тому

    Sheesh and I thought my emba was hard. Thanks for producing videos like these. It might not get as much views as someone playing a computer game (guilty) for hours but it is well appreciated

  • @comradeglogi
    @comradeglogi 3 роки тому

    This needs much more views

  • @Sljux
    @Sljux 3 роки тому

    I like how you clearly state things

  • @benmcreynolds8581
    @benmcreynolds8581 Рік тому +2

    The process of HOW inorganic compounds found a way to turn into Organic biological compounds is utterly mind boggling. Yet we know it HAS occurred because Here we are as well as all the other Organic compounds we see all over our planet.

  • @gavhenrad
    @gavhenrad 3 роки тому

    My son and I love your videos. Thanks mate.

  • @youseufsuliman1546
    @youseufsuliman1546 3 роки тому +2

    Cheers Jon! I always look forward to your videos! Love me some Szathmary =P

  • @nclark6785
    @nclark6785 3 роки тому +1

    Love this!

  • @pathsensemsca-etn6074
    @pathsensemsca-etn6074 3 роки тому +1

    Very useful - thanks.

  • @samshambles391
    @samshambles391 3 роки тому

    Once again, Brilliant!

  • @danmiller5630
    @danmiller5630 3 роки тому +1

    Awesome job. Thanks.

  • @SteveHazel
    @SteveHazel 3 роки тому

    cool :) this is the MAIN topic i'd like to see stated clearly :)

  • @lucasnascimentodasilva721
    @lucasnascimentodasilva721 3 роки тому +1

    Absurdly amazing

  • @Elephantine999
    @Elephantine999 10 місяців тому +1

    Great overview of the most interesting question there is. :)

  • @guthrie_the_wizard
    @guthrie_the_wizard 3 роки тому +1

    Super cool!!!

  • @meurtri9312
    @meurtri9312 3 роки тому +1

    amazing video.

  • @AbeDillon
    @AbeDillon 3 роки тому +2

    Instant subscription. Abiogenesis is so freaking fascinating!

    • @mauricedicke9527
      @mauricedicke9527 3 роки тому

      Because it is not possible

    • @rishivardhan2289
      @rishivardhan2289 3 роки тому

      You are correct

    • @rishivardhan2289
      @rishivardhan2289 3 роки тому

      Abiogenesis is responsible for creation of any Living creature such as animal and plant and Life is diversity by Evolution that's created many Life-form

  • @akrulla
    @akrulla 3 роки тому

    Great stuff. Thanks.

  • @mrkiirvastimviing4577
    @mrkiirvastimviing4577 3 роки тому

    Fantastic !!!! Merci

  • @gregengland5178
    @gregengland5178 3 роки тому

    Fascinating!

  • @umu-i-d2785
    @umu-i-d2785 3 роки тому

    Great to see another awesome video from you. Greetings from Shiraz

  • @sma9111
    @sma9111 3 роки тому

    Thank you!

  • @paulwalsh2344
    @paulwalsh2344 3 роки тому

    This is quite an excellent video ! Thank you ! Really easily digestible (get what I said there).

  • @fyang1429
    @fyang1429 3 роки тому +2

    I have heard doubts about the RNA world hypothesis for long, and I wondered what other explanations have people come up with.
    It's quite a shame that I, a biochemistry major, was not aware of this...
    Anyways, nice job!

  • @konstantinosantoniou7486
    @konstantinosantoniou7486 3 роки тому

    Excellent video. Keep it up!!

  • @neonvalkyrie6425
    @neonvalkyrie6425 3 роки тому

    I love the videos, keep it up !

  • @LeftSoulz
    @LeftSoulz 3 роки тому

    Awesome!

  • @PurpleRhymesWithOrange
    @PurpleRhymesWithOrange 3 роки тому

    Excellent presentation

  • @RandomNooby
    @RandomNooby 3 роки тому

    great work

  • @eliasednie3816
    @eliasednie3816 3 роки тому

    I love all these videos !
    Go ahead & do the phosphate problem, why not ?