According to the conventional hypothesis, the earliest living cells emerged as a result of chemical evolution on our planet billions of years ago in a process called abiogenesis. 根据传统的假说,最初的活细胞,肇生于数十亿年前地球上的化学演化过程,这种说法称为无生源说。
If, on the other hand, researchers find evidence of Martian organisms that emerged independently of terrestrial life, it would suggest that abiogenesis can occur with ease throughout the cosmos. 另一方面,如果研究人员找到火星生物的演化无关乎地球生命的证据,就表示无生源说可以轻易套用于整个宇宙。
abiogenesis
[ noun ] a hypothetical organic phenomenon by which living organisms are created from nonliving matter <noun.phenomenon>
Abiogenesis \Ab`i*o*gen"e*sis\, n. [Gr. 'a priv. + bi`os life + ge`nesis, origin, birth.] (Biol.) The supposed origination of living organisms from lifeless matter; such genesis as does not involve the action of living parents; spontaneous generation; -- called also {abiogeny}, and opposed to {biogenesis}.
I shall call the . . . doctrine that living matter may be produced by not living matter, the hypothesis of abiogenesis. --Huxley, 1870.