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| Charles Darwin |
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| Joseph Dalton Hooker |
On
1
st February 1871, in a letter to a British botanist
Joseph Dalton Hooker, Charles Darwin proposed a natural process for
the origin of life which suggesting that the original spark of life
may have begun in a “warm little pond, with all sorts of ammonia,
phosphoric salts, light, heat, electricity etc; are present in that a
protein compound was chemically formed ready to undergo still more
complex changes”.
But
he went on to explain that “at the present day such matter would be
instantly devoured or absorbed, which would not have been the case
before living creatures were formed”.
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