it’s a good thing he did, because origin of life research is very cool.
研究生命起源可是个很酷的工作,他对这项工作的贡献着实不小。
though the mechanism of the origin of life is unknown, he says, once evolution was under way no special supernatural intervention was required.
他说,尽管生命起源的机理尚不清楚,但一旦进化开始,就不需要任何特别的超自然力量的介入。
but finding microbes that are unusually clever at adapting to hostile environments tells us nothing about the origin of life on earth — or anywhere else in the universe for that matter.
但是寻找这种不能智能应对有害环境的微生物并不能告诉我们地球上或者宇宙其他地方生命的起源。
we must conclude from the work of those who have studied the origin of life .
根据那些研究生命起源的人们所作的工作,我们必然得出这样的结论。
was the origin of life itself a probable event, and therefore is life common in the universe?
生命起源本身是一个或然事件,因此,生命在宇宙中普遍存在吗?
he remained studying the origin of life .
他仍在研究生命的起源。
the origin of life is a hotly debated topic, and the source of the prebiotic chemicals in earth's so-called primordial soup is one of its enduring mysteries.