The problem of the origin of life is central to biology. It has been repeatedly addressed
by scholars, including the above-quoted Erasmus Darwin and his famous
later, Oparin has suggested, in the first comprehensive scenario of the abiogenic
origin of life (abiogenesis), that the primordial reducing atmosphere could have
favoured the spontaneous formation of proteinaceous bodies that could aggregate
into coacervates (protocells) [3,4].